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Use the following to answer the questions below:

November 6, 2012 was election day. Many of the major television networks aired coverage of the incoming election results during the primetime hours. The provided table displays the amount of time (in minutes) spent watching election coverage for a random sample of 25 U.S. adults.

123	120	45	30	40	86	36	52	86
2	70	155	70	168	156	107	126	66
71	97	73	90	69	5	68	​	​

Suppose you wish to use the percentiles of your bootstrap distribution to provide a 92% confidence interval for the mean amount of time (in minutes) U.S. adults spent watching election coverage on election night. Which percentiles would you use?

▸ The 2%- and 98%-iles.

▸ The 4%- and 96%-iles.

▸ The 5%- and 95%-iles.

▸ The 1%- and 99%-iles.

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