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a national survey of 1517 respondents reached on landlines a and cell phones found thas t the percentage of adults who favor legalized abortion has dropped from 53% a yeas r ago to 44% the study claimed that the error attributable to sampling is +5 percentage points would you claim that a majority of people are not in favor of legalized abortion. the confidence interval for the study is _% to _%

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Answer:

You can claim that the majority of people are not in favor of legalized abortion.

39% < p < 49%

Step-by-step explanation:

The confidence interval for the study can be calculated as:

44% - 5% < p < 44% + 5%

39% < p < 49%

Where p is the percentage of people that are in favor of legalized abortion and 5% is the error attributable to sampling.

Since the upper limit of the confidence interval is 49% (less than 50%), you can claim that a majority of people are not in favor of legalized abortion.

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