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A factory produces electronic components. A quality control manager takes a random sample of 500 components and finds that 25 of them are defective.
  1. Calculate the sample proportion \(\hat{p}\) of defective components.
  2. Construct a \(95\pourcent\) confidence interval for the true proportion of defective components produced by the factory.

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