The larger the sample, the more we can trust the sample ___________ to be an estimate of the population ___________.
A) mean; mean
B) standard error of the mean; standard deviation
C) standard error of the mean; variance
D) difference; mean

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The larger the sample size, the more reliable the sample mean becomes as an estimate of the population mean, due to the law of large numbers which states that as a sample size grows, its mean gets closer to the average of the whole population.

The Larger the Sample, the More We Can Trust the Sample