The Confidence Interval for 5-Year Survival After Stage I Breast

The confidence interval for 5-year survival after Stage I breast cancer, in a large sample of women living in Texas, is 87.5% to 93.3%, at a p < 0.05 level of significance. What does this mean?

A) Texan women in the near future will be likely to have about a 90% chance of living 5 years after they are newly diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer.
B) Women in Texas with Stage I breast cancer have a 95% chance of 90% survival, over a 5-year period.
C) Women in Texas with Stage I breast cancer have an 86% chance of 5-year survival.
D) In any sample of women in Texas newly diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer, there is about a 95% chance that their collective survival 5 years from now will be around 90%.
E) Women in Texas can feel 95% confident that they will survive Stage I breast cancer.

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