A 99 Percent Confidence Interval Allows Us to Say That

question 27

Multiple Choice

A 99 percent confidence interval allows us to say that if we took many samples from the population:

• A)the whole sample would contain a range that included the population parameter.
• B)99 percent of all the samples would contain a range that included the population parameter.
• C)99 percent of all the samples would allow us to estimate the mean within ±1 percent.
• D)1 percent of all the samples would contain a range that included the population parameter.
• E)1 percent of all the samples would allow us to estimate the mean within ±1 percent.

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