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Posted by D on Friday, May 18, 2012 at 10:19pm.

In a survey of 400 college students, 40 were left-handed. Treating the sample as if it were random and using 0.015 as the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion, what is the lower bound of a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion?

statistics - MathGuru, Monday, May 21, 2012 at 8:45pm
Use a proportional confidence interval formula:

CI95 = p + or - (1.96)(0.015)
...where p = x/n
Note: + or - 1.96 represents 95% confidence interval.

For p in your problem: 40/400 = .1

I let you take it from here to calculate the interval.

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