The width of a confidence interval will be:
A)Narrower for 98 percent confidence than for 90 percent confidence.
B)Wider for a sample size of 64 than for a sample size of 36.
C)Wider for a 99 percent confidence than for 95 percent confidence.
D)Narrower for a sample size of 25 than for a sample size of 36.
E)None of these.

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A higher confidence level (e.g., 99% vs. 95%) results in a wider confidence interval because it requires more certainty, thus a larger margin of error.

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