Many couples believe that it is getting too expensive to host an "average" wedding in the United States. According to the website www. costofwedding. com, the average cost of a wedding in the U. S. in 2009 was $24,066. Recently, in a random sample of 40 weddings in the U. S. it was found that the average cost of a wedding was $23,224, with a standard deviation of $2,903. On the basis of this, a 95% confidence interval for the mean cost of weddings in the U. S. is $22,296 to $24,152.

Does the confidence interval provide evidence that the mean cost of a wedding has decreased?

A) yes
B) no