A researcher wants to estimate the average distance that students at a large community college live from

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A researcher wants to estimate the average distance that students at a large community college live from campus. To find out, she surveys a simple random sample of students from the registrar’s database.

a. Will the researcher’s sample result be exactly the same as the true population mean? Explain your answer.

b. Which would be more likely to produce a sample result closer to the true population value: an SRS of 100 students or an SRS of 50 students? Explain your answer.

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The Practice Of Statistics

ISBN: 9781319113339

6th Edition

Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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