According to the U.S. govemment, the per capita consumption of bottled water by Americans has a mean of 24.2 gallons per year and a standard deviation of 2.9 gallons per year. A marketing company is researching current trends in bottled water consumption. They select a random sample of 38 Americans bottled water consumption per year and find the mean consumption to be 24.9 gallons per year.
Can the Central Limit Theorem be applied to this situation?
a. Yes, because the parent population is normally distributed.
b. Yes, because the sample is targe enough.
c. No, because the parent population is not normally distributed
d. No, because the sample is not large enough
e. The Central Limit Theorem is not needed because the focus is on individual bottled water consumption, not sample means