SCENARIO 8-12 The Superintendent of a Unified School District of a Small

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SCENARIO 8-12
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 Scenario 8-12,what is the critical value for 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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