document.write( "Question 436450: 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?
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C. The likelihood that any confidence interval based on a sample of 400 graduates will contain the population mean is 0.95 \n" ); document.write( "
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