A Prison Official Wants to Estimate the Proportion of Cases

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Short Answer

A prison official wants to estimate the proportion of cases of recidivism.Examining the records of 250 convicts,the official determines that there are 65 cases of recidivism.A confidence interval will be obtained for the proportion of cases of recidivism.Part of this calculation includes the estimated standard error of the sample proportion.For this sample,the estimated standard error is .

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