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Chapter 8: Q.7 (page 482)

NAEP scores Refer to Exercise 5. Below your sketch, choose one value of x inside the shaded region and draw its corresponding confidence interval. Do the same for one value of x outside the shaded region. What is the most important difference between these intervals?

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The most important difference between these intervals

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If the sample mean x¯lies in the shaded region, then the confidence interval will contain the true population mean μ.

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