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Width of a 95% Confidence Interval
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A population has known standard deviation 10. You draw n = 100 observations and form the standard 95% confidence interval for the mean (z = 1.96). What is the full width of the interval?
Approach
Standard error = σ/√n.
Width is twice the margin of error.
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