SOLUTION: according to a local school district, middle school students are assigned a mean of 2.5 hours of homework per night. If 144 samples of 50 students from this school district are col

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Question 917511: according to a local school district, middle school students are assigned a mean of 2.5 hours of homework per night. If 144 samples of 50 students from this school district are collected and the amount of time spent per night on homework is recorded for each student, what would you expect to be the mean of the sampling distribution of sampling means?
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according to a local school district, middle school students are assigned a mean of 2.5 hours of homework per night. If 144 samples of 50 students from this school district are collected and the amount of time spent per night on homework is recorded for each student, what would you expect to be the mean of the sampling distribution of sampling means?
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Ans:: According to the Central Limit Theorem the mean of the sample means
= the mean of the population = 2.5 hrs.
Cheers,
Stan H.
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