A past survey of 1,068,000 students taking a standardized test revealed that 7.6​% of the students were planning on studying engineering in college. In a recent survey of 1,476,000 students taking the​ SAT, 9.2​% of the students were planning to study engineering. Construct a 95​% confidence interval for the difference between proportions p1−p2 by using the following inequality. Assume the samples are random and independent. The confidence interval is ___

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A past survey of 1,068,000 students taking a standardized test revealed that 7.6​% of the students were planning on studying engineering in college. In a recent survey of 1,476,000 students taking the​ SAT, 9.2​% of the students were planning to study engineering. Construct a 95​% confidence interval for the difference between proportions p1−p2 by using the following inequality. Assume the samples are random and independent.

The confidence interval is ___ <p1 − p2<_____

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