In Developing a Confidence Interval Estimate for the Population Mean

question 18

Multiple Choice

In developing a confidence interval estimate for the population mean, the t-distribution is used to obtain the critical value when:

• A) the sample contains some extreme values that skew the results.
• B) the population standard deviation is unknown.
• C) the sampling that is being used is not a statistical sample.
• D) the confidence level is low.

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