Suppose That You Wish to Obtain a Confidence Interval for a Population

question 34

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you wish to obtain a confidence interval for a population mean. Under the conditions described below, should you use the z-interval procedure, the t-interval procedure, or neither?
- The population standard deviation is known.
- The population is far from being normally distributed.
- the sample size is large.

• A)Neither
• B)t-interval procedure
• C)z-interval procedure

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