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Ask Your Teacher Recent studies have shown that about 20% ofAmerican adults fit the medical definition of being obese. A largemedical clinic would like to estimate what percentage of theirpatients are obese, so they take a random sample of 100 patientsand find that 16 are obese. Suppose that in truth, the samepercentage holds for the patients of the medical clinic as for thegeneral population, 20%. If the clinic took repeated random samplesof 100 observations and found the sample proportion who were obese,into what interval should those sample proportions fall about 95%of the time? (Round your answers to two decimal places. Between_____ and _____

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