The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 18 - Inference in Practice - Chapter 18 Exercises - Page 435: 18.32

Answer

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Work Step by Step

The percentage of adults of each province is based on a population (and not on a sample), thus it is possible to obtain $\mu$ from the data. Thus a confidence interval for $\mu$ makes no sense.
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