2. A prism has total surface area of 360 m2 and volume of 60 m3.

And we want to see the effect if we increase the confidence level for a interval. On this case if we increase the confidence level then the critical value for the confidence interval $t_{\alpha/2}$ would be higher and then the width of the interval would increase. So then the best answer for this case would be:

B. Increasing the level of confidence widens the interval.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's assume that we have a parameter of interest $\mu$ who represent for example the true mean for a population. And we can construct a confidence interval in order to estimate this parameter if we know the distribution for the statistic let's say $\bar X$ and for this particular example the confidence interval is given by:

$\bar X \pm ME$

Where ME represent the margin of error for the estimation and this margin of error is given by:

$ME = t_{\alpha/2} \frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}$

And the width for the confidence interval is given by:

$Width =2ME=2t_{\alpha/2} \frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}$

And we want to see the effect if we increase the confidence level for a interval. On this case if we increase the confidence level then the critical value for the confidence interval $t_{\alpha/2}$ would be higher and then the width of the interval would increase. So then the best answer for this case would be:

B. Increasing the level of confidence widens the interval.

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