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(Proportions) Federal Prison Populations - Nationally, 60.2% of federal prisoners are serving time for drug offenses. A warden feels that in his prison the percentage is even higher. He surveys 400 randomly selected inmates' records and finds that 260 of the inmates are drug offenders. At α = .05, is he correct? Use the P-value method.

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