Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th Edition)
Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134683416
Author: Ron Larson, Betsy Farber
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8.4, Problem 25E
To determine

To construct: The 95% confidence interval for the proportion of the population of U.S. college graduates who expect to stay at their first employer for 3 or more years and the proportion of the population of U.S. college graduates who are employed in their field of study.

To compare: The result with the result in Section 6.3, Exercise 27, part (a).

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Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th Edition)

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