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.Here is a 90% confidence interval estimate of theproportion of adults who say that thelaw goes easy on celebrities: 0.645



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Answer:

The best estimate of the proportion of adults who say that the law goes easy on celebrities is 0.7435.

Explanation:

Confidence interval concepts:

A confidence interval has two bounds, a lower bound and an upper bound.

A confidence interval is symmetric, which means that the point estimate used is the mid point between these two bounds, that is, the mean of the two bounds.

In this question:

CI is between 0.645 and 0.842. So the best estimate of the proportion is:

(0.645+0.842)/2 = 0.7435

The best estimate of the proportion of adults who say that the law goes easy on celebrities is 0.7435.

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