Confidence interval of the true proportion of patients

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A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that patients who spend more than 48 hours in an intensive-care unit of a hospital increase their risk of developing dangerous blood clots. A random survey is taken of 275 people who spent more than 48 hours in an intensive- care unit found 82 developed dangerous blood clots. Determine a 90% confidence interval of the true proportion of patients that developed dangerous blood clots.

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