TABLE 17-2 A Political Pollster Randomly Selects a Sample of 100 Voters

question 120

Multiple Choice

TABLE 17-2
A political pollster randomly selects a sample of 100 voters each day for 8 successive days and asks how many will vote for the incumbent. The pollster wishes to construct a p chart to see if the percentage favoring the incumbent candidate is too erratic.

-Referring to Table 17-2, which expression best characterizes the p chart?

• A) Hugging the center line
• B) Cycles
• C) Hugging the control line
• D) Individual outliers

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