A University Dean Is Interested in Determining the Proportion of Students

question 125

Short Answer

A university dean is interested in determining the proportion of students who receive some sort of financial aid.Rather than examine the records for all students,the dean randomly selects 200 students and finds that 118 of them are receiving financial aid.Use a 90% confidence interval to estimate the true proportion of students who receive financial aid.

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