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Instruction 8-16
The Registrar of a university would like to estimate the proportion of the student population who owns a personal computer. In a sample of 500 students, 417 own a personal computer.
-Referring to Instruction 8-16,a confidence interval estimate of the population proportion would only be valid if the distribution of the number of students who own a personal computer is normal.


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