A sample of 23 plants was taken and the mean height was 27 cm. A 95% confidence interval for the true mean height of plants of that particular species is (23.2 cm, 30.8 cm).  Four students gave the following interpretations of the confidence interval. Which of the following is correct? 1. We are 95% confident that the true mean height is 27 cm sin

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A sample of 23 plants was taken and the mean height was 27 cm. A 95% confidence interval for the true mean height of plants of that particular species is (23.2 cm, 30.8 cm). 


Four students gave the following interpretations of the confidence interval. Which of the following is correct?

1. We are 95% confident that the true mean height is 27 cm since that value lies in the confidence interval

2. We can be fairly confident that 95% of all plants of that species have a height between 23.2 cm and 30.8 cm.

3. The probability is 0.95 that the mean height lies in the interval (23.2 , 30.8).

4. We are 95% confident that the true mean height for all plants of that species will lie in the interval (23.2, 30.8)

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