Which of the Following Is an Ideal Opening for a Direct

question 2

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an ideal opening for a direct claim?

• A) Unfortunately, you shipped only three laptops instead of the five we ordered.
• B) Please adjust invoice 3459 to show that we ordered six office chairs, not seven.
• C) Imagine our disappointment when we received our order and discovered three broken glasses.
• D) On November 1, our team met and decided it was time to upgrade the phones for our field representatives.
• E) You shipped us three tablets that didn't work, and you shipped them later than you promised.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or parameter estimation.

Independent Populations

Populations in which the members or outcomes of one group do not influence or are not related to the members or outcomes of another group.

Equal Variances

An assumption in some statistical tests that the variances in the groups being compared are similar.

Normally Distributed

A symmetric probability distribution centered around the mean, demonstrating that occurrences near the mean happen more often than those at a distance.