In comparing a sampling distribution with a population distribution,
A)there will always be more variance in the sampling distribution.
B)there will always be more variance in the population distribution.
C)as the size of the sample increases the two distributions will become identical.
D)the two distributions will always be the same.

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The population distribution typically has more variance than the sampling distribution because the sampling distribution's variance decreases as the sample size increases, due to the Central Limit Theorem.

In Comparing a Sampling Distribution with a Population Distribution