Question

Suppose that many large samples are taken from a population whose data values have a standard deviation of 512.34 which could be the standard deviation of the sample means

Answer 1

Unless there are other specifications and options, the general rule of thumb is that the standard deviation of the sample is always less than the standard deviation of the population. If you have the sample size, you could find the standard deviation of the sample, s, by \(\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}\).