Suppose a 95% confidence interval for the mean height of a 12-year-old male in Canada is 137 to 165 cm. In repeated sampling, 95% of the intervals constructed will contain the interval from 137 to 165 cm.

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A 95% confidence interval means that if we were to take many samples and construct confidence intervals for each, 95% of those intervals would contain the true population mean, not the interval from 137 to 165 cm itself.

Suppose a 95% Confidence Interval for the Mean Height of a 12-Year-Old