Given:
Standard error = 4
Population standard deviation = 16
To find:
The value of n.
Solution:
The formula of standard error is:
[tex]SE=\dfrac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}[/tex]
Where, SE is standard error , [tex]\sigma[/tex] is population standard deviation and n is the total number of elements.
Substituting [tex]SE=4,\sigma=16[/tex] in the above formula, we get
[tex]4=\dfrac{16}{\sqrt{n}}[/tex]
[tex]\sqrt{n}=\dfrac{16}{4}[/tex]
[tex]\sqrt{n}=4[/tex]
Taking square on both sides, we get
[tex]n=4^2[/tex]
[tex]n=16[/tex]
Therefore, the value of n is 16.
