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Drug sniffing dogs must be 95% accurate in their responses, since we don't want them to miss drugs and also don't want false positives. a new dog is being tested and is right in 46 of 50 trials. find a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of times the dog will be correct.

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The question: Drug sniffing dogs must be 95% accurate in their responses, since we don't want them to miss drugs and also don't want false positives. a new dog is being tested and is right in 46 of 50 trials. find a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of times the dog will be correct.

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The 95% confidence interval for the proportion of times the dog will be corrected is: 0.845, 0.995

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