A Population Has a Mean of 300 and a Standard

question 9

Multiple Choice

A population has a mean of 300 and a standard deviation of 12. A sample of 64 observations will be taken. The probability that the sample mean will be between 295 to 305 is

• A) 0.0009.
• B) 0.9991.
• C) 0.3231.
• D) 0.6769.

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Money Markets

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