Scientists at the Hopkins Memorial Forest in western Massachusetts have been collecting meteorological and environ- mental data in the forest data for more than 100 years. In the past few years, sulfate content in water samples from Birch Brook has averaged 7.48 mg/L with a standard deviation of 1.60 mg/L.
(a) What is the standard error of the sulfate in a collection of 10 water samples?
(b) If 10 students measure the sulfate in their samples, what is the probability that their average sulfate will be between 6.49 and 8.47 mg/L?
(c) What do you need to assume for the probability calculated in (b) to be accurate?