The Ages of MBA Students at a University Are Normally

question 43

Multiple Choice

The ages of MBA students at a university are normally distributed with a known population variance of 10.24. Suppose you are asked to construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean age if the mean of a sample of 36 students is 26.5 years. If a 99% confidence interval is constructed instead of a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, then ________.

• A) the resulting margin of error will increase and the risk of reporting an incorrect interval will increase
• B) the resulting margin of error will decrease and the risk of reporting an incorrect interval will increase
• C) the resulting margin of error will increase and the risk of reporting an incorrect interval will decrease
• D) the resulting margin of error will decrease and the risk of reporting an incorrect interval will decrease

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