A University Surveyed Recent Graduates of the English Department for Their

question 110

Multiple Choice

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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