If a Decision Maker Wishes to Reduce the Margin of Error

question 34

Multiple Choice

If a decision maker wishes to reduce the margin of error associated with a confidence interval estimate for a population mean, she can:

• A) decrease the sample size.
• B) increase the confidence level.
• C) increase the sample size.
• D) use the t-distribution.

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