Question

The weight of baby goats is believed to be Normally distributed, with a mean of 5.75 pounds. The average weight of a random sample of 20 baby goats is found to be 6.15 pounds, with a standard deviation of 0.35 pound. What is the standard error of the mean

Answer 1

Answer:

The standard error of the mean is 0.0783.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Central Limit Theorem helps us find the standard error of the mean:

The Central Limit Theorem estabilishes that, for a random variable X, with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $\sigma$, a large sample size can be approximated to a normal distribution with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$.

The standard deviation of the sample is the same as the standard error of the mean. So

$SE_{M} = \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$

In this problem, we have that:

$\sigma = 0.35, n = 20$

So

$SE_{M} = \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$

$SE_{M} = \frac{0.35}{\sqrt{20}}$

$SE_{M} = 0.0783$

The standard error of the mean is 0.0783.