Suppose a 95% confidence interval for μ turns out to be (1,000,2,100).What type of reasoning would you make when defining what "95% confident" means about the population?
A) Abductive.
B) Deductive.
C) Inductive.
D) None of the above.

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The phrase "95% confident" suggests that the interval (1,000, 2,100) was calculated from a random sample and has a 95% chance of containing the true population parameter (in this case, the population mean, μ). This type of reasoning is called inductive reasoning, which involves using observed data (in this case, the sample data used to calculate the interval) to make a probabilistic inference about an unknown population parameter.

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