Does It Make Sense? For Exercises 5-8, decide whether the statement makes sense

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Does It Make Sense? For Exercises 5-8, decide whether the statement makes sense (or is clearly true) or does not make sense (or is clearly false). Explain clearly. Not all of these statements have definitive answers, so your explanation is more important than vour chosen answer. 5. Larger Sample Size. Two different surveys will be con- ducted to estimate the mean salary of employees who have taken a statistics course. If the first survey has a larger sam ple size than the second survey, the first survey will result in a sample mean that is closer to the population mearn

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5)it does make sense cause as sample size increase variability reduces in the sample and sample mean moves toward the population mean

6)Yes; as from above with increase of sample size varaibility in sample mean reduces and become better estimate of population

7)false; as data has been collected from a specific location it is not representative of population and can contain significant bias from population mean

8)false it can be a good estimate provided staratified sample has been taken with representation of each type of employee and sector.

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