A marketing research company is estimating which of two soft drinks college students prefer. A random sample of n college students produced the following 95% confidence interval for the proportion of college students who prefer drink A: (.262, .622). Identify the point estimate for estimating the true proportion of college students who prefer that drink.

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 A marketing research company is estimating which of two soft drinks college students prefer. A random sample of n college students produced the following 95% confidence interval for the proportion of college students who prefer drink A: (.262, .622). Identify the point estimate for estimating the true proportion of college students who prefer that drink.

A) .622 B) .442 C) .262 D) .18

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