For Exercises 51–54, do the following for the confidence interval from the indicated exercises:

  1. Calculate the margin of error.
  2. Explain what this value for the margin of error means.

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53. Spring Break and Drinking. Exercise 49

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(a) 0.0968 (b) We can estimate the population proportion of college females who agree that heavier drinking occurs on spring break trips than is typically found on campus to within 0.0968 with 99% confidence.