单选题

An analyst gathered the following information about a stock index:
Mean net income for all companies in the index   $3.2 million
Standard deviation of net income for all companies in the index   -$4.8 million
If the analyst takes a sample of 36 companies from the index, the standard error of the sample mean is closest to(     )。

【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】

The standard error of the sample mean is equal to the population standard deviation divided by the square root of the number of observations in the sample: 4800000/436=800000.