say they approve of the way the mayor is doing their job. If we wish to construct a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of adults in this city who would say they approve, what is the appropriate margin of error? (Give your numeric response to at least 3 decimal places. Give only your numeric response, and not any extra characters or
say they approve of the way the mayor is doing their job. If we wish to construct a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of adults in this city who would say they approve, what is the appropriate margin of error? (Give your numeric response to at least 3 decimal places. Give only your numeric response, and not any extra characters or
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Suppose we wish to estimate the population proportion of adults in a large city who approve of the way the mayor is doing their job. In a random sample of 1200 adults in this city, 490 say they approve of the way the mayor is doing their job. If we wish to construct a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of adults in this city who would say they approve, what is the appropriate margin of error?
(Give your numeric response to at least 3 decimal places. Give only your numeric response, and not any extra characters or symbols.)
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