The scores of a certain population on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) are thought to be Normally distributed with mean μ and standard deviation σ = 10. A simple random sample of 30 children from this population is taken and each is given the WISC. The mean of the 30 scores is 104.32.
Suppose a histogram of the 30 WISC scores is the following.

Based on this histogram, we would conclude that any confidence interval constructed from this sample

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The scores of a certain population on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) are thought to be Normally distributed with mean μ and standard deviation σ = 10. A simple random sample of 30 children from this population is taken and each is given the WISC. The mean of the 30 scores is 104.32. 
 Suppose a histogram of the 30 WISC scores is the following. 
                     
 Based on this histogram, we would conclude that any confidence interval constructed from this sample

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may be used with some reservation due to the sample size just being large enough for the Central Limit Theorem to apply.

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is completely reliable as skew does not matter at any sample size.

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may be used with some reservation due to the very small sample size.

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is completely unreliable due to the skew.

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