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Mark wanted to estimate the mean number of years of education of adults in his city. He waited outside a public library and interviewed every tenth adult leaving. Based on this sample, he constructed a confidence interval for the mean number of years of education of adult city. Do you think this confidence interval will give a good estimate? Why or why not?

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