An Experimenter Studying Competition Wants to Compare the Behaviour of Students

question 53

Multiple Choice

An experimenter studying competition wants to compare the behaviour of students performing a difficult task with that of students doing an easy task.She designates participants for each task,making sure that each student has an equal chance of being in either the hard or the easy condition.This procedure is known as

• A)random sampling.
• B)random assignment.
• C)conditional selection.
• D)selective designation.

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Definitions:

Perform Operation

Execute or carry out a specific mathematical or logistical task.

Like Terms

Terms in an algebraic expression that have the same variable(s) raised to the same power, and therefore can be combined.

Simplify

To reduce a mathematical expression or problem to its simplest form.

Imaginary Numbers

Numbers that can be represented as a real number multiplied by the imaginary unit, usually denoted as "i," where \(i^2 = -1\).