Intro Stats, Books a la Carte Edition (5th Edition)
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Chapter 17, Problem 3E
Canada, deux The information in Exercise 1 was used to create a 95% two-proportion confidence interval for the difference between Canadians and U.S. citizens who were born in foreign countries. Interpret this interval with a sentence in context.
95% confidence interval for
pCanadians − pAmericans is (3.24%, 9.56%).
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