The Following Is a 95% Confidence Interval of the Proportion

question 5

Essay

The following is a 95% confidence interval of the proportion of female medical school
students: 0.449 < p < 0.511, based on data from the American Medical Association. What is
the point estimate of the proportion of females in the population of medical school students?
Write a brief statement that correctly interprets the confidence interval given.

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