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1. Which of the following will have the smallest standard deviation? Explain your reasoning.

A sampling distribution of sample means for samples of size:
a. 15
b. 25
c. 100

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Answer:

c. 100

Explanation:

The standard deviation of sample means is inversely proportional to the square root of the sample size. The larger the sample, the smaller the standard deviation of the sampling distribution.

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