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A researcher is interested in testing whether college students send more or fewer texts per day, relative to the general population. The researcher finds out that the population average of texts sent per day is µ = 112, but is unable to find out the population standard deviation.
This researcher then recruits 25 college students, and asks about their texting. They report a sample mean of M = 120, with a SS= 1200
Compute the sample variance s2= ?
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