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geoffrey

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Random samples of size 17 are taken from a population that has 200 elements, a mean of 36, and a standard deviation of 8 . Which of the following best describes the form of the sampling distribution of the sample mean for this situation?
 a. Approximately normal because the sample size is small relative to the population size
  b. Approximately normal because of the central limit theorem
  c. Exactly normal
  d. None of the answers is correct.

Question 2

The mean, median, and mode have the same value for which of the following probability distributions?
 a. uniform
  b. normal
  c. exponential
  d. Poisson


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cegalasso

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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b


geoffrey

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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
:D TYSM

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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