As the size of the sample goes up:
A) So does confidence in its representativeness of the population
B) Confidence in its representativeness of the population decreases
C) Its proportion to the size of the population must remain constant
D) The fraction of the total population that a sample contains decreases
E) So does the probability of selection for each element in the population

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As the sample size increases, the likelihood that it accurately represents the population also increases. This is because larger sample sizes reduce the impact of sampling errors and increase the precision of estimates. As a result, confidence in the representativeness of the population also increases.

As the Size of the Sample Goes Up