Jackson weighed all of his pet guinea pigs and found the average weight to be 2.4 pounds. If the standard error of the sample mean was 0.2227 and the sample standard deviation was 0.63 pounds, how many guinea pigs does Jackson have

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Using the Central Limit Theorem, it is found that Jackson has 8 guinea pigs.

What does the Central Limit Theorem state?

It states that the sampling distribution of sample means of size n has standard error [tex]s = \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}[/tex], in which [tex]\sigma[/tex] is the standard deviation of the population.

In this problem, we have that [tex]s = 0.2227, \sigma = 0.63[/tex], hence we solve for n to find the number of guinea pigs that he has.

[tex]s = \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}[/tex]

[tex]0.2227 = \frac{0.63}{\sqrt{n}}[/tex]

[tex]0.2227\sqrt{n} = 0.63[/tex]

[tex]\sqrt{n} = \frac{0.63}{0.2227}[/tex]

[tex](\sqrt{n})^2 = \left(\frac{0.63}{0.2227}\right)^2[/tex]

[tex]n = 8[/tex]

Jackson has 8 guinea pigs.

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