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A normally distributed population has a mean of 40 and a standard deviation of 12. What does the central limit theorem say about the sampling distribution of the mean if samples of size 100 are drawn from this population?

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This brief solution implements the Central Limit Theorem and explains characteristics of the sampling population by finding the standard deviation.

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