Provide an Appropriate Response

question 25

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-The number of violent crimes committed in a day possesses a distribution with a mean of 3.8 crimes per day and a standard deviation of 2 crimes per day. A random sample of 100 days was observed, and the mean number of crimes for the sample was calculated. Describe the sampling distribution of the sample mean.

• A) approximately normal with mean = 3.8 and standard deviation = 0.2
• B) approximately normal with mean = 3.8 and standard deviation = 2
• C) shape unknown with mean = 3.8 and standard deviation = 2
• D) shape unknown with mean = 3.8 and standard deviation = 0.2

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