Why is the normality assumption not a problem

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In 1992,the FAA conducted 86,991 drug test on applicants for employment,1,143 were positive(a)construct a 95% confidence intervalfor the population proportion of positive drug tests.Why is the normality assumption not a problem despite the very small value of p?

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