SOLUTION: Please help me with this statistics question. A sample of 100 was asked whether they would choose Basic statistics or Basic science. It is determined that 40 from the students s

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Question 1088974: Please help me with this statistics question.
A sample of 100 was asked whether they would choose Basic statistics or Basic science. It is determined that 40 from the students sample prefer Basic statistics. What is the standard error of p?
Answer by rothauserc(4718) About Me  (Show Source):
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p(the proportion of successes) = 0.40
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standard error of p = square root(0.40)*(1-0.40)/100) = 0.049
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