A polling company has decided to increase the size of its random sample of voters from about 1,000 people to about 2,800 people right before an election. A poll was designed to estimate the proportion of voters who favor a new law banning cell phone use in internet coffee shops. What is the effect of this increase?

A. To reduce the variability of the estimate

B. To increase the variability to the estimate

C. To reduce the bias of the estimate

D. To increase the bias of the estimate

E. This increase will have no effect because the population size is the same

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Barrett Brown

Mathematics

19 October, 09:06

A polling company has decided to increase the size of its random sample of voters from about 1,000 people to about 2,800 people right before an election. A poll was designed to estimate the proportion of voters who favor a new law banning cell phone use in internet coffee shops. What is the effect of this increase?

A. To reduce the variability of the estimate

B. To increase the variability to the estimate

C. To reduce the bias of the estimate

D. To increase the bias of the estimate

E. This increase will have no effect because the population size is the same

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Michael Herman · Answer 1

A. To reduce the variability of the estimate

Step-by-step explanation:

The larger the sample, the less variability there is.

The smaller the sample, the more variability there is.

Bias has to do with how randomly the sample is selected. Assuming that method doesn't change, the bias doesn't change.

Kelsie Carpenter · Answer 2

That there is more people there then people working