SOLUTION: Please help with this question: Five hundred students took a chemistry test. You sampled 100 students to estimate the average score and the standard deviation. How many degrees

Question 1051032: Please help with this question:
Five hundred students took a chemistry test. You sampled 100 students to estimate the average score and the standard deviation. How many degrees of freedom were there in the estimation of the standard deviation? (Justify Please)
(a) 500
(b) 499
(c) 100
(d) 99
I thank you for your time.
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
100 students to estimate the average score and the standard deviation
(n-1) is used to determine the sample standard deviation
(d) 99
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