Leana is interested in the proportion of people who live in her area who own a dog. She randomly selects 50 addresses within a one-mile radius of her home and visits each to ask if they own at least one dog. Leana finds that 29 of the 50 homes she visited had at least one dog. Construct a 98% confidence interval for the population proportion of people who live within one mile of Leana's home who own at least one dog.

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Leana is interested in the proportion of people who live in her area who own a dog. She randomly selects 50 addresses within a one-mile radius of her home and visits each to ask if they own at least one dog. Leana finds that 29 of the 50 homes she visited had at least one dog. Construct a 98% confidence interval for the population proportion of people who live within one mile of Leana's home who own at least one dog.

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