The Central Limit Theorem States That, If an Infinite Number

question 2

Multiple Choice

The central limit theorem states that, if an infinite number of relatively large (over 30) samples were to be drawn from a population in which a variable is somewhat positively skewed, the sampling distribution for those samples would be

• A) equally positively skewed.
• B) more positively skewed than within the population.
• C) a normal distribution.
• D) negatively skewed.

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