The owner of a fish market has an assistant who has determined that the weights of catfish are normally distributed,with a mean of 3.2 pounds and a standard deviation of 0.8 pound.If a sample of 16 fish is taken,what would the standard error of the mean weight equal?
A)0.003
B)0.050
C)0.200
D)0.800

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The formula for standard error of the mean is the standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size. Therefore, the standard error of the mean weight would be 0.8 / sqrt(16) = 0.2. This corresponds to choice C.

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