If You Were Constructing a 99% Confidence Interval for the Population

question 130

Multiple Choice

If you were constructing a 99% confidence interval for the population mean based on a sample of n = 25, where the standard deviation of the sample s = 0.05, what would be the critical value of t?

• A) 2.7969
• B) 2.7874
• C) 2.4922
• D) 2.4851

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