TABLE 8-6
A sample of salary offers (in thousands of dollars) given to management majors is: 28, 31, 26, 32, 27, 28, 27, 30, 31, and 29. Using this data to obtain a 95% confidence interval resulted in an interval from 27.5 to 30.3.
-Referring to Table 8-6, 95% of the time, the sample mean salary offer to management majors will fall between 27.5 and 30.3.

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A 95% confidence interval means that we are 95% confident that the true population mean falls within the interval, not that 95% of sample means will fall within it.

TABLE 8-6 A Sample of Salary Offers (In Thousands of Dollars) Given