The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 20 - Inference about a Population Mean - Check Your Skills - Page 477: 20.17

Answer

(b) z requires that you know the population standard deviation

Work Step by Step

This is due to the fact that in most cases we do not know the standard deviation of the population.
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