SOLUTION: What effect does the sample size have on the standard deviation of all possible sample means? A. It gets smaller as the sample size grows. B. The sample size has no effect on

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Question 1140004: What effect does the sample size have on the standard deviation of all possible sample means?
A. It gets smaller as the sample size grows.
B. The sample size has no effect on it.
C. It gets larger as the sample size grows.
Which one is the good answer?

Answer by MathLover1(20850) About Me  (Show Source):
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as the sample size increases, the standard deviation of the means decreases; and
as the sample size decreases, the standard deviation of the sample means increases