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Compare the confidence intervals in Exercise 8.29. What effect does each of these action...

Compare the confidence intervals in Exercise 8.29. What effect does each of these actions have on the width of a confidence interval?

a. Double the sample size

b. Quadruple the sample size

Reference:

A random sample of n measurements is selected from a population with unknown mean µ and known standard deviation σ = 10. Calculate the width of a 95% confidence interval for µ for these values of n:

a. n = 100 b. n = 200 c. n = 400

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