The Amount of Time It Takes a Student to Walk $\bar { x } ,$

question 47

Essay

The amount of time it takes a student to walk from her home to class has a skewed right distribution with a mean of 10 minutes and a standard deviation of 1.6 minutes. If times were collected from 40 randomly selected walks, describe the sampling distribution of $\bar { x } ,$ the sample mean time.

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