The distribution of health satisfaction scores for allied health professionals is based on a sample of n =11,724 providers. For our purposes, consider this a random sample from the population of all allied health professionals in the United States covering the same time period as these data.

Suppose anotherrandom sampleof 5,000 providers is taken from the same population, and added to this sample of 11,724, for a total sample of 16,724 providers.How will the sample MEAN of these 16,724 observations compare in value to the sample mean of the original sample of n=11,724?