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In a recent year, a sample of the South American Redeye Piranha was collected by fishermen on a particular river. Wildlife biologists regard this sample as a random sample of all Redeye Piranha in that river. The
Explain what would happen to the length of the original interval if the
The confidence interval will be (wider, narrower, the same) because decreasing the sample size (increases, decreases, does not affect) the margin of error.
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