Suppose a simple random sample of five hospitals is to be drawn from a population of 20 hospitals. There are 15,504 different samples of size 5 that can be drawn. The relative frequency distribution of the values of the mean of these 15,504 different samples would specify the of the mean.
A) confidence interval
B) sampling distribution
C) confidence level
D) normal distribution

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The relative frequency distribution of the means of all possible samples of a given size from a population is known as the sampling distribution of the mean.

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