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Chapter 12: Q. AP4.31 (page 832)

AP4.31 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 main 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

Short Answer

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The correct answer is option (d) To increase the precision of the estimate.

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Given information

To determine the main 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.

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Explanation

Any experimental data that is used to establish inferences about a population from a sample must take the sample size into account. The major point for selecting a large sample size for generating a confidence interval to estimate the proportion of city taxpayers who would support such a project is because the greater the sample size, the better the estimations will be, and thus the precision of the estimate will be increased.
As a result, option (d), which increases the precision of the estimate, is the proper choice.

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