If the lower and upper confidence limits of the population proportion p,using a sample of size 1500,are 0.184 and 0.238,respectively,then the lower and upper confidence limits of the total number of successes in the population,given that the population size is 750,000,are respectively:
A)276 and 357
B)137,724 and 178,143
C)138,000 and 178,500
D)138,276 and 179,857

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The lower and upper confidence limits for the total number of successes are:Lower limit = (0.184) * (750,000) = 138,000Upper limit = (0.238) * (750,000) = 178,500

If the Lower and Upper Confidence Limits of the Population