TABLE 8-9 The Superintendent of a Unified School District of a Small

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TABLE 8-9
The superintendent of a unified school district of a small town wants to make sure that no more than 5% of the students skip more than 10 days of school in a year. A random sample of 145 students from a population of 800 showed that 12 students skipped more than 10 days of school last year.
-Referring to Table 8-9, what is the upper bound of the 95% one-sided confidence interval for the proportion of students who skipped more than 10 days of school last year?

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