Question

A large company wants to estimate the average salary of its employees. Instead of surveying all employees, the HR department randomly selects 200 employees and calculates the sample mean salary. Which of the following statements is the best justification for using the sample mean to estimate the population mean salary?  

A The sample mean always equals the population mean, regardless of the sample size.
B The distribution of salaries in the sample will always be normal, even if the population distribution is highly skewed.
C The sample mean is an unbiased estimator of the population mean, and by the Central Limit Theorem, the sampling distribution of the sample mean approaches normality for large sample sizes.
D The variability of the sample mean is independent of the sample size.
E The Central Limit Theorem applies only if the original population distribution is normal.
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