Graduate Students Applying for Entrance to Many Universities Must Take

question 16

Short Answer

Graduate students applying for entrance to many universities must take a Miller Analogies Test. It is known the test scores have a mean of 75 and a variance of 16. This year, one hundred students applied for entrance into graduate school in physics.
Find the mean of the sampling distribution of .
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Find the standard deviation.
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Find the probability that the average score of this group of students is higher than 76.
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