96 (8.1 A hospital readmission is an episode when a patient who has been discharged from a hospital is readmitted again within a certain time period. Nationally the
nited readmission rate for patients with pneumonia is 14%. A hospital was interested in knowing whether
their readmission rate for pneumonia was less than the national
percentage. They found 8 patients out of 60 treated for pneumonia in a two-month period were readmitted. Complete parts (a) through (d) below.
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a. What is p, the sample proportion of readmission?