Determine Whether the Hypothesis Test Involves a Sampling Distribution of Means

question 129

Multiple Choice

Determine whether the hypothesis test involves a sampling distribution of means that is a normal distribution, Student t distribution, or neither.
-Claim: $\mu = 119$ . Sample data: $n = 15 , \bar { x } = 103 , s = 15.2$ . The sample data appear to come from a normally distributed population with unknown $\mu$ and $\sigma$ .

• A) Neither
• B) Normal
• C) Student \(\mathrm { t }\)

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