If we were to select many random samples of from the same population and construct a 98% confidence interval using each sample, about of the intervals would capture the .

A 98% confidence level means that if we repeatedly took random samples and built an interval from each one, about 98% of those intervals would contain the true population proportion. Here, that parameter is the proportion of all adults who have allergies, not the proportion in any one sample.

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