The Smaller the Level of Confidence Used in Constructing a Confidence

question 121

Multiple Choice

The smaller the level of confidence used in constructing a confidence interval estimate of the population mean, the:

• A)more likely that the confidence interval will contain the population mean.
• B)wider the confidence interval.
• C)narrower the confidence interval.
• D)larger the sample required to estimate the population mean to within a certain error bound.