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A school planner is interested in determining the proportion of spring semester students that will attend summer school. She takes a sample of 160 spring semester students discovering that 56 will return to summer school.

Construct a 98% confidence interval estimate for the proportion of spring semester students who will return in the summer. Show work.

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