Use the following information to answer the question. A sprint duathlon consists of a 5 km run, a 20 km bike ride, followed by another 5 km run. The mean finish time of all participants in a recent large duathlon was 1.67 hours with a standard deviation of 0.25 hours. Suppose a random sample of 30 participants in the 40-44 age group was taken and the mean finishing time was found to be 1.62 hours with a standard deviation of 0.40 hours.
-Suppose we were to make a histogram of the finishing times of the 30 participants in the 40-44 age group. Would the histogram be a display of the population distribution, the distribution of a
Sample, or the sampling distribution of means?
A) distribution of a sample
B) sampling distribution of means
C) population distribution

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The histogram would display the distribution of a sample, as it represents the finishing times of the 30 participants in the 40-44 age group.

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