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As part of his semester project, a BYU-Idaho Introductory Statistics student cal

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Question

As part of his semester project, a BYU-Idaho Introductory Statistics student calculates a 95% confidence interval for the true percentage of BYU-Idaho students who are from Latin America. What does the phrase "95% confidence" mean? Question options: There's a 95% chance that the true proportion is in the confidence interval. 95% of the student's data are within the confidence intervals. If we create many 95% confidence intervals, 95% of them will contain the true proportion. The sample proportion is in 95% of the confidence intervals we make.

Question options:
A) There's a 95% chance that the true proportion is in the confidence interval
B) 95% of the student's data are within the confidence intervals.
C) If we create many 95% confidence intervals, 95% of them will contain the true proportion.
D) The sample proportion is in 95% of the confidence intervals we make.

Explanation / Answer

Here we are finding out a 95% confidence interval for the true percentage of BYU-Idaho students who are from Latin America.

and the correct option is:

C) If we create many 95% confidence intervals, 95% of them will contain the true proportion.