THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

question 31

Multiple Choice

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
Suppose that the waiting times for patients at a local hospital are normally distributed with known population standard deviation of 30 minutes.A random sample of 75 patients in the local hospital had a mean time of 90 minutes.Assume a 95% confidence interval for the population mean μ.
-What is the formula used to calculate the standard error?

• A)σ /
• B)σ² /
• C)σ / n
• D)σ / n²

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