CAIE S2 2012 June — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2012
SessionJune
TopicCentral limit theorem
TypeDistribution of sample mean

2 A population has mean 7 and standard deviation 3. A random sample of size \(n\) is chosen from this population.
  1. Write down the mean and standard deviation of the distribution of the sample mean.
  2. Under what circumstances does the sample mean have
    (a) a normal distribution,
    (b) an approximately normal distribution?