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A Pew research study recently randomly selected two groups of people, men and women and asked them if they agree with the following statement: "It s morally wrong for a married person to have an affair" Among 386 women, and 347 agreed with the statement. Among 359 men surveyed, 305 agreed with the statement.

Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference between two proportions.
a) Label all of the variables
b) Write out the margin of error (E) with all variables identified
c) Calculate E
d) Correctly state the 95% confidence interval

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The solution provides steps how to find out the confidence interval for the proportion difference.

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1) the variables in this question is proportion of women who agree with the statement and proportion of men who agree with the statement.
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