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As Principal, you wish to determine whether your faculty members wish to change from a pension to a 401K plan. So you leave questionnaires at the police stations and receive 40 of them back. Of these, 30 say that they are not willing to change. You report to the Mayor that 75% do not wish to change. What is wrong with this assumption?

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As Principal, you wish to determine whether your faculty members wish to change from a pension to a 401K plan. So you leave questionnaires at the police stations and receive 40 of them back. Of these, 30 say that they are not willing to change. You ...

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