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A Researcher Reports That the Heights of Men Aged 53

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A researcher reports that the heights of men aged 53 living in Rapid City, South Dakota, is between 5'7" and 6'0" and that the confidence interval is calculated at the p < 0.05 level. What does this mean?


A) If the heights of men in Rapid City, South Dakota, do not fall within the confidence interval at least 5% of the time, a Type I error has occurred.
B) If a 53-yr-old man in Rapid City, South Dakota, is measured, there is a 95% chance that his height will fall in the 5'7" through 6'0" interval.
C) Ninety-five percent of the 53-year-old men living in Rapid City, South Dakota, are between 5'7" and 6'0".
D) The heights of the men in the sample were all between 5'7" and 6'0", and the sample was representative of 95% of the men in town.

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