A Researcher Asks a Sample of People About Their Attitudes

question 116

Multiple Choice

A researcher asks a sample of people about their attitudes toward same-sex marriage and concludes people are either strongly in favor of it or strongly opposed, with relatively few people either unsure or indifferent. She reaches this conclusion because the shape of the distribution is ______.

• A) normal
• B) peaked
• C) skewed
• D) bimodal

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Definitions:

Future Cash Flows

Estimates of the amount of money expected to be received or paid out by a business in future periods.

Internal Rate of Return

A metric used in financial analysis to estimate the profitability of potential investments, calculated as the rate of return that makes the net present value of all cash flows equal to zero.

Present Value

The current valuation of a future sum of money or cash flows, when evaluated at a given rate of return.

Desired Rate of Return

The return a investor expects to achieve from an investment.