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Multiple Choice: Please select the best answer and dick \"submit.\" Suppose that a company claims that its boxes of breakfast cereal contain 16 ounces of cereal on average, with a standard deviation of 0.5 ounces. If you took a sample of 50 boxes of cereal, what would be the expected mean amount of cereal per box in the sample? 18 ounces 16 ounces 15 ounces 17 ounces

Solution

the mean of the distribution of sample means is the same as the mean of the population;

so it would stay at 16 ounces

option B