Bert Constructed a Confidence Interval to Estimate the Mean Weight

question 40

Essay

Bert constructed a confidence interval to estimate the mean weight of students in his class. The population was very small - only 30. Ruth constructed a confidence interval for the mean
weight of all adult males in the city. She based her confidence interval on a very small
sample of only 5. Which confidence interval is likely to give a better estimate of the mean it is
estimating? Which is likely to be more of a problem, a small sample or a small population?

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