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Chapter 12: Q. 31 (page 804)

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 under coverage

Short Answer

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The reason is to increase the precision of the estimate i.e., option (d).

Step by step solution

01

Given Information

We are given that a city wants to conduct a poll of taxpayers to determine the level of support for constructing a new city-owned baseball stadium and we have to find out the reason for using a large sample size.

02

Explanation

Now as we know that as the sample size increases, the estimation will also be more precise and thus this is the reason of using a large sample size in constructing a confidence interval to estimate the proportion of city taxpayers who would support such a project.

Hence, option (d) is correct

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