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If a hurricane was headed your way, would you evacuate? Theheadline of a press release states, \"Thirty-two Percent of Peopleon High-Risk Coast Will Refuse Evacuation Order, Survey ofHurricane Preparedness Finds.\" This headline was based on a surveyof 5237 adults who live within 20 miles of the coast in highhurricane risk counties of eight southern states. In selecting thesample, care was taken to ensure that the sample would berepresentative of the population of coastal residents in thesestates.

(a) Use this information to estimate the proportion of coastalresidents who would evacuate using a 98% confidence interval.(Round your answers to three decimal places.) (_____ ,_____ )

(b) Write a few sentences interpreting the interval and theconfidence level associated with the interval. We are ____%confident that the proportion of all coastal residents who evacuateis within the confidence interval. If we were to take a largenumber of random samples of size 5237, ____% of the resultingconfidence intervals would contain the true proportion of allcoastal residents who_____evacuate.

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