Question 169860 • NC-Math 4
The standard deviation of the sampling distribution describes the typical distance between sample means and the true population mean. Here, it is 0.19 children, so sample means from simple random samples of 40 households will typically differ from the true mean of 3.1 by about 0.19 children. It does not mean every sample differs by exactly 0.19, as choice D claims.
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