Concept explainers
Whether the student is right or wrong.
Answer to Problem 57E
The student is not right.
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
The statement of the student = As you take larger and larger samples from a population, the histogram of the sample values looks more and more Normal.
The central limit theorem states that if there is a population with mean
Here, the statement of the student is wrong because, if the sample becomes larger and larger then the histogram of the sample values will take the shape of the population distribution.
Hence, the student is not right.
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