Probability and Stats Chapter 1

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The number of limbs on a 2-year-old oak tree is 21.

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A characteristic or attribute that can assume different values.

The science of conducting studies to collect, organize, summarize, analyze, & draw conclusions.

The total number of phone calls a sales representative makes in a month is 425.

Identify the population.

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Identify the sample.

a group of subjects selected from a population

A variable that is numerical and can be ordered or ranked.

What is wrong with this survey?

A variable that can be obtained by measuring.  It lies between any two specific values.

The subjects in which college students major.

Amount of fat (in grams) in cookies.

Consists of all subjects that are being studied.

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the US census would be an example of.....