The Dean of Admissions in a Large University Has Determined

question 51

Multiple Choice

The dean of admissions in a large university has determined that the scores of the freshman class in a mathematics test are normally distributed with a mean of 82 and a standard deviation of 8. Based on this information, what is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean if a sample of 64 students is selected at random from the entire freshman class?

• A) 10.25
• B) 8.00
• C) 2.50
• D) 1.00
• E) none of these

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