Essentials of Statistics (5th Edition)

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ISBN 13: 978-0-32192-459-9

Chapter 8 - Hypothesis Testing - 8-4 Testing a Claim about a Mean - Page 417: 34

Answer

More likely to reject the null hypothesis.

Work Step by Step

By looking at the table we can see that positive t-values are larger than positive z-values. Hence if using standard normal distribution and not the t-distribution, the confidence intervals will be narrower and hence we will be more likely to reject the null hypothesis.
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