The marketing director concluded, with 95% confidence, that between $113.36 and $130.64 contains the mean cost of all running shoes.

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A marketing director wants a 95% confidence interval for the mean cost of running shoes. She randomly samples 40 pairs of shoes and finds that the sample mean, ¯xx¯, was $122 with a sample standard deviation, ss, of $27.

The marketing director concluded, with 95% confidence, that between $113.36 and $130.64 contains the mean cost of all running shoes.

What would change for a narrower confidence interval?

Select all answers that will make the width narrower.

  • If the point estimate was larger.
  • If the sample size increased to 50 pairs of shoes.
  • If she increased the confidence level to a 99% confidence level.
  • If the sample standard deviation was larger.
  • If the point estimate was smaller.
  • If the sample standard deviation was smaller.
  • If the sample size decreased to 30 pairs of shoes.
  • If she decreased the confidence level to a 90% confidence interval.
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