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Describing the Shape of the Distribution of the Sample
Mean
Courtney would like to estimate the net worth of all people in the US. The distribution of net worth of people in the
US is strongly skewed to the right. Courtney selects an SRS of size n = 15 from this population and calculates the
sample mean. What is the shape of the distribution of the sample mean for all possible simple random samples of
size 15 from this population?
skewed to the right
O skewed to the left
approximately uniform
approximately Normal