Answer to Question #140777 in Statistics and Probability for lucy

Question

find the point estimate of the population mean given the population mean of 100, sample mean 5.24 ans standard deviation 2.18

Answer 1

We point out that there are different methods to get the point estimate of the mean. By definition (https://www.statisticshowto.com/point-estimate/), the sample mean is a point estimate of population mean. Namely, we have that the point estimate in our case is 5.24.