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A consumer magazine randomly selects of its readers and asks whether their luggage was lost on their last airplane flight. Seven out of the lost their luggage. The consumer magazine conducts a simulation to determine the sample-to-sample variability and concludes that about of all passengers lose their luggage. Make a conjecture about what the number of passengers who lose their luggage might be if the magazine had surveyed readers instead of .

Will a larger sample size have more or less variability?

Answers will vary, but a larger sample size will have less variability.
Answers should be of the form , where .