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future617RT

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A researcher obtains a random sample of 100 women and records the weight of each woman. She constructs a histogram showing the distribution of weights in the sample.
 
  Does this histogram show the shape of the sampling distribution of sample means? Explain.

Question 2

The area under the normal distribution is equal to .
 
  a. 1.0
  b. 10
  c. 100
  d. various values, depending on the shape of the distribution


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Reply #1 on: Aug 2, 2018
Answer to Question 1

No. The histogram shows the distribution of weights in one sample. The sampling distribution would show the distribution of the sample means for all possible samples of size 100.

Answer to Question 2

A


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