Identify the distribution that applies to the following situation: In constructing a confidence interval of $\mu$ , you have 50 sample values and they appear to be from a population
With a skewed distribution. The population standard deviation is not known.
A) Normal distribution
B) Student t distribution
C) Chi-square distribution
D) None of the three distributions is appropriate.

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Since the population standard deviation is not known and the sample size is small (n<30), the appropriate distribution to use is the Student t distribution.

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