A survey of 137 randomly selected students at one college showed that only 86 checked their campus email account on a regular basis. Construct a 98% confidence interval for the percentage of students at the college who do not check their email account on a regular basis. Round to one decimal place.
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First, we need to find the sample proportion of students who do not check their email account regularly. Since 86 students check their email regularly, that means 137 - 86 = 51 students do not check their email regularly. So, the sample proportion (p̂) is 51/137. Show more…
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