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Problem 2
A common statistic that is thrown around is that at least half of all new marriages will end in divorce. A researcher followed the marriages of 1500 couples for ten years. In that time, 800 of the couples divorced. Use the data to form a 90% confidence interval for the true rate of divorce among new marriages. Does this evidence support the idea that at least half of all new marriages end in divorce?
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