The average age of the MBA students in a particular statistics class is 30.7 years old. The ages of five randomly selected students from this class are: 36, 25, 25, 29, and 30. The sampling error for this sample is - 1.7 years.

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Sampling error is the difference between the sample statistic and the population parameter. Here, the average age of the sample (29 years) is 1.7 years less than the population mean (30.7 years), hence a sampling error of -1.7 years.

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