If You Were Constructing a 99% Confidence Interval of the Population

question 158

Multiple Choice

If you were constructing a 99% confidence interval of the population mean based on a sample of n=25 where the standard deviation of the sample s = 0.05, what will be the critical value of t?

• A) 2.7969
• B) 2.7874
• C) 2.4851
• D) 2.4922

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