Question

Recipes for the same type of cookies can vary in terms of ingredients and baking times. From a collection of chocolate chip cookie recipes, a baker randomly selected 5 recipes. From a collection of oatmeal raisin cookie recipes, the baker randomly selected 4 recipes. The mean baking times, in minutes, for each sample were recorded as x¯C and x¯O, respectively. What is the correct unit of measure for the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of x¯C−x¯O?

Answer 1

answer should be minutes.

Explanation:

in the problem, it is stated that the mean is in "baking times." this can lead one to assume that the standard deviation between the two xC-xO can be the variation in minutes that the two cookies types have.