A political candidate wants to enter a primary in a district with 100,000 eligible voters, but only if he has a good chance of winning. He hires a survey organization, which takes a simple random sample of 1600 voters. In the sample, 880 favor the candidate, so the percentage is 55%. This is good news but we need to understand the chance error.  To find out the standard error

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A political candidate wants to enter a primary in a district with 100,000 eligible voters, but only if he has a good chance of winning. He hires a survey organization, which takes a simple random sample of 1600 voters. In the sample, 880 favor the candidate, so the percentage is 55%. This is good news but we need to understand the chance error. 

To find out the standard error, we need the SD of the box. But to compute this, we need the actual

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