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Question 35 • Probability and Statistics with Applications Honors Sem-2-FL-1210300 (2024-2025)

The salaries of professional baseball players are heavily skewed right with a mean of $3.2 million and a standard deviation of $2 million. The salaries of professional football players are also heavily skewed right with a mean of $1.9 million and a standard deviation of $1.5 million. A random sample of 40 baseball players’ salaries and 35 football players’ salaries is selected. The mean salary is determined for both samples. Let represent the difference in the mean salaries for baseball and football players. Which of the following represents the standard deviation of the sampling distribution for ?

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A
0.41 million
B
0.57 million
C
2.5 million
D
3.5 million
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