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Clinical trials involved treating flu patients with Tamiflu,which is a medicine intended to attack the influenza virus and stopit from causing flu symptoms. Among 724 patients treated withTamiflu, 72 experienced nausea as an adverse reaction. (a)Construct a 95% confidence interval for the (population) proportionof patients treated with Tamiflu that experienced nausea as anadverse reaction.  

(b) It is reported that the rate of nausea among patientstreated with Tamiflu is greater than 7%. Using the current data,test the claim that the rate of nausea among patients treated withTamiflu is greater than 7%. Use all steps for hypothesis testing tomake a conclusion at a significance level of 5%.

(c) What assumptions or conditions have you made in statisticalinference in parts (a) and (b) respectively? Are they beingsatisfied?

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