A cell phone company believes that 90 percent of their customers are satisfied.They survey a sample of n = 100 customers and find that 82 say they are satisfied.In calculating the standard error of the sampling distribution (σ_p)the proportion to use is 0.82.

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The standard error of the sampling distribution should be calculated using the hypothesized population proportion (0.90), not the sample proportion (0.82).

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