A large population of Indian elephants has an average height of 9 feet; the SD of the lengths is 0.75 feet. Fill in the blanks: If 10 elephants are selected at random, the average height of these 10 is expected to be about _____ feet, but the actual value of the sample average is random. Due to this randomness, the typical distance the sample average is a
A large population of Indian elephants has an average height of 9 feet; the SD of the lengths is 0.75 feet. Fill in the blanks: If 10 elephants are selected at random, the average height of these 10 is expected to be about _____ feet, but the actual value of the sample average is random. Due to this randomness, the typical distance the sample average is a
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A large population of Indian elephants has an average height of 9 feet; the SD of the lengths is 0.75 feet.
Fill in the blanks: If 10 elephants are selected at random, the average height of these 10 is expected to be about _____ feet, but the actual value of the sample average is random. Due to this randomness, the typical distance the sample average is away from its expected value is about _____ feet.
a. 8; 0.75
b. 10; 0.46
c. 9; 0.24
d. 10; 0.75
e. 9; 0.46
f. 10; 0.24
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