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The weights of men in a particular age group have mean ? = 174 pounds and standard deviation ? = 32 pounds.
(a) For randomly selected samples of n = 16 men, what is the standard deviation, s.d., of the sampling distribution of possible sample means?
(b) For randomly selected samples of n = 64 men, what is the standard deviation, s.d., of the sampling distribution of possible sample means?
s.d.(x)
= (b) For randomly selected samples of n = 64 men, what is the standard deviation, s.d., of the sampling distribution of possible sample means?
s.d.(x)
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