The CEO of a company wants to estimate the percent of employees that use company computers to go on Facebook during work hours with 95% confidence. He selects a random sample of 150 of the employees and finds that 53 of them logged onto Facebook that day. What is the point estimate of the proportion of the population that logged onto Facebook that day?
A)0.25
B)0.35
C)0.53
D)0.65

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The point estimate of the proportion of the population that logged onto Facebook is found by dividing the number of employees who logged onto Facebook by the total number of employees sampled. So, $ \frac{53}{150} = 0.3533 $, which rounds to 0.35.

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