THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

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THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
In taking a sample of n observations from a population of N members,the variance of the sampling distribution of the sample means is
=

.The quantity
is called the finite population correction factor.
-To get some feeling for possible magnitudes of the finite population correction factor,calculate it for samples of n = 15 observations from populations of N = 15,30,60,100,500,1,000,5,000,and 10,000 members.

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