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Consider a population of five weights identical in appearance but weighing 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 ounces.
a. Determine the mean and the variance of the population.
b. Sampling without replacement from the above population with a sample size of 2 produces ten possible samples. Using the ten sample mean values, determine the mean of the population and the variance of .
c. Compute the standard error of the mean.
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