For a College Student Who Wishes to Calculate the True

question 176

Multiple Choice

For a college student who wishes to calculate the true costs of going to college, the costs of room and board

• A) should be counted in full, regardless of the costs of eating and sleeping elsewhere.
• B) should be counted only to the extent that they are more expensive at college than elsewhere.
• C) usually exceed the opportunity cost of going to college.
• D) plus the cost of tuition, equals the opportunity cost of going to college.

Apply the concept of margin of error in the construction and interpretation of confidence intervals.

Recognize the correct interpretation of confidence intervals among common misconceptions.

Understand how sample size affects the confidence interval.

Recognize the importance of random sampling in the construction of confidence intervals.

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