13. This summer, when I was doing gardening, I got some seeds. The packet with seeds said that 95% of them will germinate. I planted 40 seeds and 36 of them germinated. a. Find a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of seeds that germinate based on this sample. SEP b. Does this seem to provide evidence that the claim is wrong?

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13. This summer, when I was doing gardening, I got some seeds. The packet with seeds said
that 95% of them will germinate. I planted 40 seeds and 36 of them germinated.
a. Find a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of seeds that germinate based on this
sample. SEP
b. Does this seem to provide evidence that the claim is wrong?
Transcribed Image Text:13. This summer, when I was doing gardening, I got some seeds. The packet with seeds said that 95% of them will germinate. I planted 40 seeds and 36 of them germinated. a. Find a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of seeds that germinate based on this sample. SEP b. Does this seem to provide evidence that the claim is wrong?
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