A TV news program conducts a call-in poll about a proposed city ban on smoking in public places. Of the 2467 callers, 1900 were opposed to the ban. Which of the following statements are true with respect to using this sample to estimate p, the proportion of all TV news viewers that favour such a ban on smoking in public places?

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There is no way this sample can be viewed as an SRS of all TV news viewers, so we can't use this sample to estimate  p .

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There appear to be no violations to any of the assumptions made in using the methods of this chapter. We should now be able to use this sample to estimate  p .

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The population is much larger than the sample, so it's okay to use this sample to estimate  p .

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n  is so large that both the count of successes,  ,  and the count of failures,   , are 15 or more, so it's okay to use this sample to estimate  p .

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