Suppose the Ages of Students in Your Program Follow a Positively

question 103

Multiple Choice

Suppose the ages of students in your program follow a positively skewed distribution with mean of 24 years and a standard deviation of 4 years.If we randomly sampled 100 students,which of the following statements about the sampling distribution of the sample mean age is NOT true?

• A)The mean of the sampling distribution of sample mean is equal to 24 years.
• B)The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample mean is equal to 4 years.
• C)The shape of the sampling distribution of sample mean is approximately normal.
• D)All of these choices are true.

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