After Constructing a Confidence Interval Estimate for a Population Mean

question 144

Multiple Choice

After constructing a confidence interval estimate for a population mean, you believe that the interval is useless because it is too wide. In order to correct this problem, you need to:

• A) increase the population size
• B) increase the sample mean
• C) increase the confidence coefficient
• D) increase the sample size
• E) decrease the sample size

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