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Given a sample size n, how will the distribution of the sample mean behave?

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Provided that the sample size, n, is sufficiently large (greater than 30), the distribution of sample means selected from a population will have a normal distribution, according to the Central Limit Theorem.

Step-by-step explanation:
1. As n increases, the sample mean approaches the population mean
(The Law of Large numbers)
2. The standard error of the sample is
σ/√n
where σ = population standard deviation.
As n increases, the standard error decreases, which means that the error
between the sample and population means decreases.

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