# Statistics

A confidence interval was used to estimate the proportion of statistics students that are females. A random sample of 72 statistics students generated the following 90% confidence Interval: (.43, .63). based on the interval above, is the population proportion of females equal to 0.60?

1. You can be 90% confident that the population proportion falls within the calculated parameters.

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