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A population has a mean (µ) of 24.12 and a standard deviation (Æ') of 4.
Assume that a sampling distribution of sample means has been constructed.

Based on repeated samples of n=100 from this population

A). What would be the value of the mean of the sampling distribution?
B). What would be the value of the standard error of the mean?

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