Suppose that we are interested in hypothesis testing and confidence intervals for a single proportion. Explain why it is possible for the conclusion of a hypothesis test done at significance level 0.05 to be different from the inference drawn from a 95% confidence interval that is constructed from the same data used to conduct the test.

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Suppose that we are interested in hypothesis testing and confidence intervals for a single proportion. Explain why it is possible for the conclusion of a hypothesis test done at significance level 0.05 to be different from the inference drawn from a 95% confidence interval that is constructed from the same data used to conduct the test. 

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