Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements is most nearly correct, other things being equal?
A) Using Student's t instead of z makes a confidence interval narrower.
B) The table values of z and t are about the same when the mean is large.
C) For a given confidence level, the z value is always smaller than the t value.
D) Student's t is rarely used, because it is more conservative to use z.
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