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A farmer wants to test the effectiveness of a pest control method in allowing strawberry blooms to yield marketable strawberries. Of a random sample of 100 blooms,77 yield marketable strawberries. Is this evidence that two-thirds or more of all blooms grown with this pest control method ends up as marketable strawberries? The 95% large-sample confidence interval for the proportion of blooms that yield marketable strawberries is?
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