Bruce Notices That on the Days That He Eats Lunch

question 191

Multiple Choice

Bruce notices that on the days that he eats lunch at Archie's diner,people are less likely to ask him to join them for the afternoon coffee break.Bruce wonders why this is happening and thinks his co-workers must assume he doesn't want coffee after a hearty lunch.If Bruce were to use the scientific process now that he has a tentative explanation,he would translate this into a(n) :

• A)specific prediction
• B)trial
• C)theory
• D)experiment

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Mode

The most frequently occurring score in a distribution.

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A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean, indicating whether the distribution is stretched more to the left or to the right.

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