The lower the alpha level,
a. the lower the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis.
b. the larger the sample size has to be to reject the null hypothesis.
c. the greater the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis.
d. the more desirable the two-tailed test.
ANSWER: a
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