Campus athletics is interested in the proportion of registered students living on campus who play basketball recreationally during the semester. They take a random sample of 143 registered students listed as living in campus housing and ask each whether or not they do so. A 95% confidence interval is correctly calculated from this data as (0.12, 0.18). Which of the following is the correct interpretation of this confidence interval ?

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Campus athletics is interested in the proportion of registered students living on campus who play basketball recreationally during the semester. They take a random sample of 143 registered students listed as living in campus housing and ask each whether or not they do so. A 95% confidence interval is correctly calculated from this data as (0.12, 0.18).

Which of the following is the correct interpretation of this confidence interval ?

 
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