Example 3

If 540 out of 3,600 high school graduates who answer a post-graduation survey indicate that they intend to enter the military, what is the standard error of the proportion for this sample population to the nearest hundredth?
[list=1][br][*]Identify the given information.[br][/*][*]Calculate the sample proportion.[br][/*][*]Calculate the standard error of the proportion.[br][/*][/list][br]This applet is provided by Walch Education as supplemental material for their mathematics programs. Visit [url=http://www.walch.com/]www.walch.com[/url] for more information.

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