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In a trial of 218 patients who received​ 10-mg doses of a drug​ daily, 48 reported headache as a side effect.

a) Construct and interpret a 99​% confidence interval for the population proportion of patients who receive the drug and report a headache as a side effect.
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One can be enter your response here​ ? % confident that the proportion of patients who receive the drug and report a headache as a side effect is between ? and ?
​(Round to three decimal places as needed. Use ascending​ order.)

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We can be 99% confident that the proportion of patients who receive the drug and report a headache as a side effect is between 0.218 and 0.798 (rounded to three decimal places).

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