TABLE 8-10 The President of a University Is Concerned That Illicit Drug

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TABLE 8-10
The president of a university is concerned that illicit drug use on campus is higher than the 5% acceptable level. A random sample of 250 students from a population of 2,000 revealed that 7 of them had used illicit drug during the last 12 months.
-Referring to Table 8-10, what is the critical value for the 90% one-sided confidence interval for the proportion of students who had used illicit drug during the last 12 months?

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