A firm specializing in agricultural products wants to conduct a test-market offering for one of its new products. A random sample of 800 potential customers is chosen to receive advertising material describing the new product, and it was determined that 600 out of the 800 people made a purchase. Construct a 90% confidence interval to determine the proportion of the population who would purchase the product.
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