A college admissions officer sampled 119 entering freshmen and found that 50 of them scored less than 525 on the math SAT. Construct an 80% confidence interval for the proportion of all entering freshmen at this college who scored less than 525 on the math SAT. Round the answer to at least three decimal places.

A college admissions officer sampled 119 entering freshmen and found that 50 of them scored less than 525 on the math SAT. Construct an 80% confidence interval for the proportion of all entering freshmen at this college who scored less than 525 on the math SAT. Round the answer to at least three decimal places.

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1P

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