A marketing research company is estimating the average total compensation of CEOs in the service industry. Data were randomly collected from 18 CEOs and the 95% confidence interval for the mean was calculated to be (2181260,5836180). Explain what the phrase "95% confident" means.

A.

95% of the similarly constructed intervals would contain the value of the sample mean.

B.

95% of the population values will fall within the interval.

C.

95% of the sample means from similar samples fall within the interval.

D.

In repeatedsampling, 95% of the intervals constructed would contain .