Recently, a University Surveyed Recent Graduates of the English Department

question 67

Multiple Choice

Recently, a university surveyed recent graduates of the English Department for their starting salaries. Four hundred graduates returned the survey. The average salary was $25,000. The population standard deviation is $2,500. A 95% confidence interval is constructed. What does the confidence interval mean?

• A) The population mean is in the interval
• B) The population mean is not in the interval
• C) The likelihood that any confidence interval based on a sample of 400 graduates will contain the population mean is 0.95
• D) There is a 5% chance that the computed interval does not contain the population mean

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