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Pharmaceutical companies promote their prescription drugs using television advertising. In a survey of 80 randomly sampled television viewers, 10 indicated that they asked their physician about using a prescription drug they saw advertised on TV. What is the margin of error for a 95\% confidence interval estimate?

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Pharmaceutical companies promote their prescription drugs using television advertising. In a survey of 80 randomly sampled television viewers, 10 indicated that they asked their physician about using a prescription drug they saw advertised on TV. What is the margin of error for a 95% confidence interval estimate?

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00:01 In a sample of 75 television viewers, 12 indicated that they asked their physician about using a prescription drug that they saw advertised on tv.
00:12 So we were asked to find a 99 % confidence interval for the proportion of all television viewers who asked their physician about this drug.
00:23 Since we're estimating a population proportion from a large sample, the confidence interval for proportion is calculated as the sample proportion plus or minus a critical value z sub alpha over 2 times the standard error, which is the square root of the sample proportion, times 1 minus the sample proportion over the sample size.
00:47 We are asked for a 99 % confidence...
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