A group of absent-minded scientists has two numbers (25.4 and 2.54) written on a scrap of paper. One scientists says: “I remember that one of these values was the standard deviation and the other the standard error of the mean, but I can’t remember which is which”. a)Which number is the standard deviation, and which is the standard error of the mean? b)What was the sample size?

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A group of absent-minded scientists has two numbers (25.4 and 2.54) written on a scrap of paper. One scientists says: “I remember that one of these values was the standard deviation and the other the standard error of the mean, but I can’t remember which is which”.

a)Which number is the standard deviation, and which is the standard error of the mean?

b)What was the sample size?

SE=  s/√(2√n)

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