Consider the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

question 5

Multiple Choice

Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:
In a metal fabrication process, metal rods are produced that have an average length of 20.5 metres with a standard deviation of 2.3 metres. A quality control specialist collects a random sample of 30 rods and measures their lengths.
-Suppose the resulting sample mean is 19.5 metres. Which of the following statements is true?

• A) This sample mean is 2.38 standard deviations above what we expect.
• B) This sample mean is more than 3 standard deviations away from the population mean.
• C) This sample mean is 2.38 standard deviations below what we expect.
• D) This sample mean is only 1 standard deviation above the population mean.
• E) This sample mean is only 1 standard deviation below the population mean.

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