Question

A population has a standard deviation of 5.5. What is the standard error of the sampling distribution if the sample size is 81?

Answer 1

Answer:

$\sigma = 5.5$

And we have a sample size of n =81. We want to estimate the standard error of the sampling distribution $\bar X$ and for this case we know that the distribution is given by:

$\bar X \sim N(\mu ,\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}})$

And the standard error would be:

$\sigma_{\bar x}= \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$

And replacing we got:

$\sigma_{\bar x}=\frac{5.5}{\sqrt{81}}= 0.611$

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case we know the population deviation given by:

$\sigma = 5.5$

And we have a sample size of n =81. We want to estimate the standard error of the sampling distribution $\bar X$ and for this case we know that the distribution is given by:

$\bar X \sim N(\mu ,\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}})$

And the standard error would be:

$\sigma_{\bar x}= \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$

And replacing we got:

$\sigma_{\bar x}=\frac{5.5}{\sqrt{81}}= 0.611$