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In a recent survey of high school seniors, 74% of those surveyed stated they were planning on attending college the following year. The margin of error was 3%. Find the likely interval that contains the percentage of high school seniors that were planning on attending college the following year.

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since

74% of the surveyed planning on attending college

margin of error was 3%

likely interval is given by


X\pm Error

then


74+3=77
74-3=71

then the likely interval that contains the percentage of high school seniors that were planning on attending college the following year is

[tex]71\%
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