Constructing a Confidence Interval for a Population Mean

AP Statistics· difficulty 1/5

A researcher constructs a 95% confidence interval for a population mean from a random sample of size n = 16.

-t* t* 0 df = 15, 95% middle

What degrees of freedom should be used for the critical t* value?

  • A

    16

  • B

    30

  • C

    14

  • D

    15

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Explanation

For a one-sample t-procedure, df = n - 1 = 16 - 1 = 15.

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