Keeping everything else the same, if you were to change your alpha level from .01 to .05, the likelihood of rejecting the null hypothesis
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Higher values of α make it easier to reject the null hypothesis, so choosing higher values for α can reduce the probability of a Type II error. The consequence here is that if the null hypothesis is true, increasing α makes it more likely(higher probability) that we commit a Type I error (rejecting a true null hypothesis).
Here α level increases from 0.01 to 0.05. So the likelihood of rejecting the null hypothesis
(A) Increases
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