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Question 4 • CA-Statistics and Probability B

Heather runs a successful lawn-mowing business. She would like to estimate the true mean amount of time it takes for her employees to mow a lawn. To do so, she selects a random sample of 30 customers and records the time it takes the employees to mow their lawns. The 90% confidence interval for the true mean time it takes for her employees to mow a lawn is 40–55 minutes. Which of the following would decrease the width of the interval?

Answer
A
selecting another sample
B
increasing the sample size
C
decreasing the sample size
D
increasing the confidence level
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