A Student Was Interested in the Cigarette Smoking Habits of College

question 8

Multiple Choice

A student was interested in the cigarette smoking habits of college students and collected data from an unbiased random sample of students.The data is summarized in the following table: Why is the table NOT a frequency distribution?

• A)The number of males does not equal the sum of males that smoke and do not smoke.
• B)The classes are not mutually exclusive.
• C)There are too many classes.
• D)Class limits cannot be computed.

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