Memorial Medical Center conducted a study to investigate cholesterol levels in people who have had heart attacks. A random sample of 1600 people was obtained from the names of all patients of the medical center who had a heart attack in the previous year. Of the people in the sample, the proportion of heart attacks was of 24%. Assuming all conditions for inference were met, which of the following is a 90 percent confidence interval for heart attacks, of all patients of the medical center who had a high cholesterol in

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Memorial Medical Center conducted a study to investigate cholesterol levels in people who have had heart attacks. A random sample of 1600 people was obtained from the names of all patients of the medical center who had a heart attack in the previous year. Of the people in the sample, the proportion of heart attacks was of 24%. Assuming all conditions for inference were met, which of the following is a 90 percent confidence interval for heart attacks, of all patients of the medical center who had a high cholesterol in the previous year?

 

 a
(0.2112, 0.2669)
 b
(0.3421, 0.4328)
 c
(0.2144, 0.2565)
 d
(0.2224, 0.2576)
 e
(0.1356, 0.3421)
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