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A listing of 100 family annual incomes is an example of statistics.

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Which one of the following is NOT an example of discrete data?

A) Number of households watching the Home Shopping Network.
B) Number of employees reporting in sick.
C) Number of miles between New York City and Chicago.
D) Number of members of the Denver Lions Club.

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The lowest level of measurement that has some sort of ranking is ___________.

A New York newspaper reported the average gasoline prices in four metropolitan areas and used a bar chart to illustrate the differences.What type of statistics was shown? What activities did the newspaper use to make the report?

The collection of all possible objects of interest is referred to as the _____________.

The main purpose of descriptive statistics is to:

Your height and weight are examples of which level of measurement?

Respondents were asked,"Do you now earn more than or less than you did five years ago?" What is this level of measurement?

The terms descriptive statistics and inferential statistics can be used interchangeably.

A marketing class of 50 students evaluated the instructor using the following scale: superior,good,average,poor,and inferior.The descriptive summary showed the following survey results: 2% superior,8% good,45% average,45% poor,and 0% inferior.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Act requires employers to classify their employees by gender and national origin.Which level of measurement is this?

Based on a sample of 3,000 people,the civilian unemployment rate in the United States was 5.5%.5.5% is referred to as a statistic.

Shoe sizes,such as 7B,10D and 12EEE,are examples of what level of measurement?

An ordinal level of measurement implies some sort of ranking.

What level of measurement is the prime rate of interest? ______________

The science of collecting,organizing,presenting,analyzing,and interpreting of data is called ___________________.

The number of workers reporting sick in any particular week is considered to be _______________ data.

Categorizing students as freshmen,sophomores,juniors and seniors is an example of the ______________ level of measurement.

The general process of gathering,organizing,summarizing,analyzing,and interpreting data is called