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A city wants to conduct a poll of taxpayers to determine the level of support for
Chapter 12, Problem AP4.31(choose chapter or problem)
A city wants to conduct a poll of taxpayers to determine the level of support for constructing a new city-owned baseball stadium. Which of the following is the primary reason for using a large sample size in constructing a confidence interval to estimate the proportion of city taxpayers who would support such a project? (a) To increase the confidence level (b) To eliminate any confounding variables (c) To reduce nonresponse bias (d) To increase the precision of the estimate (e) To reduce undercoverage AP4
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QUESTION:
A city wants to conduct a poll of taxpayers to determine the level of support for constructing a new city-owned baseball stadium. Which of the following is the primary reason for using a large sample size in constructing a confidence interval to estimate the proportion of city taxpayers who would support such a project? (a) To increase the confidence level (b) To eliminate any confounding variables (c) To reduce nonresponse bias (d) To increase the precision of the estimate (e) To reduce undercoverage AP4
ANSWER:Step 1 of 2
The larger the sample size will be, the better any estimates will be and thus this will then mainly increase the precision of the estimate.