Constructing a Confidence Interval for a Population Mean

AP Statistics· difficulty 2/5

Holding all else constant, a researcher increases the confidence level from 90% to 99%.

confidence interval L U x-bar

What happens to the margin of error?

  • A

    It decreases.

  • B

    It becomes 0.

  • C

    It increases.

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  • D

    It stays the same.

Explanation

Higher confidence requires a larger t* (or z*), which increases the ME.

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