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It Takes Fred 6 Hours to Produce a Bushel of Corn

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It takes Fred 6 hours to produce a bushel of corn and 2 hours to wash and polish a car. It takes Wilma 6 hours to produce a bushel of corn and 1 hour to wash and polish a car. Wilma and Fred cannot gain from specialization and trade, since it takes each of them 6 hours to produce 1 bushel of corn.


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Descriptive Statistics

The branch of statistics that deals with the summarization and description of the main features of a collection of data.

Inferential Statistics

The branch of statistics that focuses on drawing conclusions about a population based on a sample drawn from it.

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