If the 1,017 People in the Previous Question Had Called

question 5

Multiple Choice

If the 1,017 people in the previous question had called a 900 number to give their opinions, how would this have affected the response?

• A) Not at all, because the width of the confidence interval depends only on the sample size, and not on the population size.
• B) Not at all, because the width of the confidence interval depends only on the sample size, and not on how the sample was obtained.
• C) It would be wider because voluntary response polls have a bigger margin of error than simple random samples.
• D) It would be narrower because voluntary response polls are less variable than simple random samples.
• E) A confidence interval makes no sense for a voluntary response sample.

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