A service data on the body mass index of 654 young women the mean body mass index in the sample was X bar equals 26.8 service data on the body mass index of 654 young women the mean body mass index. We treated these data as an SRS from a normal distribution population with a standard deviation of 7.5 A. given 3 confidence intervals for the mean BMI in the population using 90 95 and 99% confidence. B.  What are the margins of air for 90,  95 and 99% confidence? how does increasing the confidence level change the margin of error of a confidence interval when the sample size and population standard deviation remain the same

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A service data on the body mass index of 654 young women the mean body mass index in the sample was X bar equals 26.8 service data on the body mass index of 654 young women the mean body mass index. We treated these data as an SRS from a normal distribution population with a standard deviation of 7.5

A. given 3 confidence intervals for the mean BMI in the population using 90 95 and 99% confidence.

B.  What are the margins of air for 90,  95 and 99% confidence? how does increasing the confidence level change the margin of error of a confidence interval when the sample size and population standard deviation remain the same

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