What Critical Value Would Be Appropriate for a 98% Confidence

question 24

Multiple Choice

What critical value would be appropriate for a 98% confidence interval on a mean where σ is unknown if the sample size is 10 and the population is normally distributed?

• A) 2.8214
• B) 2.7638
• C) 1.3830
• D) 2.3263

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