In Developing a Confidence Interval Estimate for the Difference Between

question 31

Multiple Choice

In developing a confidence interval estimate for the difference between two population means when the population variances are known, an increase in the size of the samples will result in:

• A) a wider confidence interval.
• B) a narrower confidence interval.
• C) a smaller z critical value.
• D) the same confidence interval.

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