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A clothing store owner wants to know the proportion of customers who used coupons within the last 2 years. He randomly selects 450 receipts from a database of all purchases within the last 2 years and finds that 49 of them are discounted by coupons.

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The proportion of customers who used coupons within the last 2 years is 0.1089.

Step-by-step explanation:

A proportion is the number of desired outcomes divided by the number of total outcomes.

Proportion of customers who used coupons within the last 2 years.

Desired outcomes:

Number of receipts which are discounted by coupons, which is 49

Total outcomes:

Total number of receipts, which is 450

Proportion:

[tex]P = \frac{49}{450} = 0.1089[/tex]

The proportion of customers who used coupons within the last 2 years is 0.1089.

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