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A television newscaster from a 24-hour news station wants to estimate the number of hours per day its viewers watch

programming on this channel
. The neviscaster randomly selects 100 viewers and asks them how many hours per day
they watch this station. The newscaster constructs an 85% confidence interval for the true mean number of hours
viewers watch this station. Which of the following would decrease the margin of error?

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This isn't the best worded question but from what I understand a larger sample size decreases the margin of error. If he would like a more accurate answer a larger sample size of the viewers will give more accurate answers.

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