Which of the following is true about a 95% confidence interval of the mean:
A)95 out of 100 confidence intervals will contain the population mean.
B)95 out of 100 sample means will fall within the limits of the confidence interval.
C)95% of population means will fall within the limits of the confidence interval.
D)There is a 0.05 probability that the population mean falls within the limits of the confidence interval.

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The 95% confidence interval means that if we were to repeat the study many times, we would expect 95% of the resulting confidence intervals to contain the true population mean. It is not about the sample mean or individual population means.

Which of the Following Is True About a 95% Confidence