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How will increasing the level of confidence without changing the sample size affect the width of a confidence interval for a population mean?

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The width of the confidence interval is going to be wider

Explanation:

When we Increase the level of confidence without changing the sample size the width of the confidence interval is going to be affected in the following way;

The margin of error (M.E) is going to be larger or be increased. This increase is due to the fact that the critical value is going to increase. Then the increased margin of error would cause the width of the confidence interval to become wider.

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