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Economy worries. During the week of April 15, 2013, a Gallup Poll requested 1500 U.S. adults, aged 18 or over, how they rated economic conditions. Only 17%17 \% rated the economy as Excellent/Good. Make a 95%95 \% confidence interval for the true proportion of Americans who rated the U.S. economy as Excellent/Good.

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We were given a situation where the sample proportion p^\hat{p} of Indian adults who rated the Indian economy as improving is p^=29%\hat{p}=29\%. This is from a survey done by Gallup Poll which involved n=1500n=1500 Indian adults.

We were then asked to compute for the 95%95\% confidence interval for the true population proportion pp where pp is the true proportion of Indian adults who rated the economy as 'Getting better'.

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