A small business ships specialty homemade candies to anywhere in the world.Past records indicate that the weight of orders is normally distributed.Suppose a random sample of 16 orders is selected and each is weighed.The sample mean was found to be 110 grams with a standard deviation of 14 grams.The standard error of the mean is ________________________ .

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The standard error of the mean (SEM) is calculated by dividing the standard deviation by the square root of the sample size. Here, SEM = 14 / sqrt(16) = 14 / 4 = 3.5 grams.

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