Chapter 1 Definitions and Data
A restaurant owner is interested in the proportion of his customers who order dessert. He looks at
65 randomly selected receipts. Match the vocabulary word with its corresponding example.
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• The answer: Yes or No to whether a customer ordered dessert
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• The list of the 65 Yes or No answers for whether each customer ordered dessert.
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• The proportion of the 65 randomly selected customers who ordered dessert
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• The proportion of all customers who order dessert
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• The 65 restaurant patrons whose receipts were observed by the owner
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• All customers who come to the restaurant
a. Data
b. Population
c. Statistic
d. Parameter
e. Variable
f. Sample
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,Final Test Answers.
A rancher is interested in the average age that a cow begins producing milk. Match the vocabulary
word with its corresponding example.
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• The age when a milk cow first produced milk
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• The 62 milk cows that were observed by the rancher
,Final Test Answers.
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• All milk cows
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• The average age for the 62 observed milk cows as they first produced milk
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• The average age that all milk cows are when they first produce milk
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• The list of the 62 ages
a. Variable
b. Data
c. Statistic
d. Population
e. Sample
f. Parameter
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Ski resorts are interested in the average age that children take their first ski and snowboard lessons.
They need this information to optimally plan their ski classes. Match the vocabulary word with its
corresponding example.
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• The average age that the 92 children took their first lesson
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• The list of the 92 ages that the children from the study took their first lesson
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• All children who ski and snowboard
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• The age that children take their first lesson
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• The average age that all children take their first lesson
, Final Test Answers.
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• The 92 children who were asked when they took their first lesson
a. Sample
b. Statistic
c. Variable
d. Parameter
e. Population
f. Data
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Hint
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A restaurant owner is interested in the proportion of his customers who order dessert. He looks at
65 randomly selected receipts. Match the vocabulary word with its corresponding example.
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• All customers who come to the restaurant
-
• The proportion of all customers who order dessert
-
• The answer: Yes or No to whether a customer ordered dessert
-
• The 65 restaurant patrons whose receipts were observed by the owner
-
• The list of the 65 Yes or No answers for whether each customer ordered dessert.
-
• The proportion of the 65 randomly selected customers who ordered dessert
a. Variable
b. Sample
c. Population
d. Statistic
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