A Population Has a Mean of 60 and a Standard

question 64

Multiple Choice

A population has a mean of 60 and a standard deviation of 18. A sample of 81 observations will be taken. The probability that the sample mean will be larger than 64 is

• A) 0.5228.
• B) 0.9772.
• C) 0.4772.
• D) 0.0228.

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