The population of current statistics students has ages with mean mu and standard deviation sigma. samples of statistics students are randomly selected so that there are exactly 48 students in each sample. for each sample, the mean age is computed. what does the central limit theorem tell us about the distribution of those mean ages?

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Soren Huerta

9 December, 23:43

The population of current statistics students has ages with mean mu and standard deviation sigma. samples of statistics students are randomly selected so that there are exactly 48 students in each sample. for each sample, the mean age is computed. what does the central limit theorem tell us about the distribution of those mean ages?

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Catalina Wheeler · Answer 1

Answer: The central limit theorem tells us that when random samples are chosen the results tend to approach a normal distribution.

The basic idea is that the more random samples that you select, the closer you should get to the mean. In most cases, 30 or more samples is regarded as a large enough sample to get close to the mean. Our sample is 48, so we should be close to the mean.