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suppose the confidence interval (0.6358, 0.7532) represents the proportion of skyline college students who say math is their favorite subject. a. based on the confidence interval, is it likely 60% of skyline college students say math is their favorite subject?

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Answer: No, it is not likely that 60% of Skyline College students say math is their favorite subject based on the given confidence interval of (0.6358, 0.7532).

The confidence interval tells us that we are 95% confident that the true proportion of Skyline College students who say math is their favorite subject lies between 0.6358 and 0.7532. This means that if we were to take many random samples from the population of Skyline College students and construct 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of students who say math is their favorite subject, 95% of those intervals would contain the true population proportion.

Since 0.60 is not within the interval (0.6358, 0.7532), it is unlikely that the true proportion of Skyline College students who say math is their favorite subject is 60%. However, we cannot make any definitive statements about the population proportion based on this one confidence interval alone.

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