Constructing a Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion

AP Statistics· difficulty 2/5

For the same sample, two CIs are computed: 95% and 99%.

95% 99%

Which is wider?

  • A

    99% CI

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  • B

    Cannot tell

  • C

    95% CI

  • D

    Equal width

Explanation

Higher confidence requires a larger z*; thus the 99% CI is wider.

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