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?
  1. Identify the given information.
  2. Calculate the sample proportion.
  3. Calculate the standard error of the proportion.
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