The Office of Student Services at a Large Western State

question 42

Multiple Choice

The Office of Student Services at a large western state university maintains information on the study habits of its full-time students. Their studies indicate that the mean amount of time undergraduate students study per week is 20 hours. The hours studied follows the normal distribution with a population standard deviation of six hours. Suppose we select a random sample of 144 current students. What is the standard error of the mean?

• A)0.50
• B)6.00
• C)0.25
• D)2.00

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