Given a Population Variance of = 36 and a Sample

question 207

Multiple Choice

Given a population variance of = 36 and a sample size of n = 9, which of the following would equal the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean, ?

• A) 4
• B) 2
• C) 1/2
• D) 1/4

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