In an Effort to Identify the True Proportion of College

question 29

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In an effort to identify the true proportion of college freshman who are under 18 years of age,a random sample of 500 freshmen was taken.Fifty of them were under the age of 18.The value 0.10 is a point estimate of the true proportion of freshman under age 18.

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