sample of 1250 current BBA members reveals that 962 are in favor of the merger proposal. Construct a 99% confidence for the true proportion of BBA members in favor of the proposal.
Continuous Probability Distributions
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Normal Distribution
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Given data:
A sample of current BBA members is taken, n = 1250
Number of BBA members who are in favor of merger proposal, x = 962.
Degree of confidence, c = 99%
Level of significance is:
Let p be the true proportion of BBA members of the population.
Let be the estimated proportion of BBA members.
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