How to find sampling distribution of a sample mean

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The standard deviation of a sampling distribution is called:

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Which of the following is a sampling distribution?

3

A machine puts an average of grams of jelly beans in bags, with a standard deviation of grams. bags are randomly chosen, what is the probability that the mean amount per bag in the sampled bags is less than grams.

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If a sampling distribution for samples of college students measured for average height has a mean of 70 inches and a standard deviation of 5 inches, we can infer that:

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Assume you have taken 100 samples of size 64 each from a population. The population variance is 49.

What is the standard deviation of each (and every) sample mean?

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A random variable has an average of with a standard deviation of . What is the probability that out of the sample set the variable is less than . The sample set is . Round your answer to three decimal places.

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Suppose that the mean height of college students is 70 inches with a standard deviation of 5 inches. If a random sample of 60 college students is taken, what is the probability that the sample average height for this sample will be more than 71 inches?

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Reaction times in a population of people have a standard deviation of milliseconds. How large must a sample size be for the standard deviation of the sample mean reaction time to be no larger than milliseconds?

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