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You are told that a 95% confidence interval for a population proportion is (0.3775, 0.6225). What...

You are told that a 95% confidence interval for a population proportion is
(0.3775, 0.6225).
What was the sample proportion p that lead to this confidence interval?

What was the size n of the sample used?

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