The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 18 - Inference in Practice - Check Your Skills - Page 434: 18.24

Answer

(a)

Work Step by Step

A larger sample size gives us more information about the population. Thus a difference with the stated null hypothesis will become more pronounced in case of using a larger sample. This then implies that it is easier to reject the null hypothesis for larger samples. Thus the answer is (a).
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