450 people are randomly selected at grocery stores across the state and surveyed on the amount of money they are spending at the store that day. How does finding the sample variance compare to investigating the sampling distribution of the variance?

A. The sampling distribution of the variance requires repeating this process with the same sample several times. So this does not compare to the sampling distribution of the variance.

B.Only 450 people are selected from all the shoppers, so the distribution is not even.

C. Since the state has at least 450 grocery stores, finding the variance of the sample is the same as investigating the sampling distribution of the variance.

D.The sampling distribution of the mean requires multiple samples to be compared. However, in this situation you are looking for the variance, so finding the sample variance is the same as investigating the sampling distribution of the variance.

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D. The sampling distribution of the mean requires multiple samples to be compared. However, in this situation you are looking for the variance, so finding the sample variance is the same as investigating the sampling distribution of the variance.

The correct answer is D. The sampling distribution of the mean requires multiple samples to be compared, while in this situation we are looking for the variance. Therefore, finding the sample variance is the same as investigating the sampling distribution of the variance.

To understand this better, the sample variance is calculated by finding the average of the squared differences between each individual data point and the mean of the sample. This provides an estimate of the variance within the specific sample of 450 people.

On the other hand, the sampling distribution of the variance refers to the distribution of all possible sample variances that could be obtained by repeatedly sampling from the population. In order to investigate this distribution, you would need to repeat the process of randomly selecting 450 people multiple times and calculate the variance for each sample.

However, in this scenario, we are only conducting one survey with a sample of 450 people. Therefore, finding the sample variance accurately represents the variance within the specific sample we have, without the need for repeating the process multiple times.

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