Murdock Wants to Get to His Sister's New House, Which

question 87

Multiple Choice

Murdock wants to get to his sister's new house, which he knows is north of where he is right now.Stranded without a map or a telephone, he decides to keep driving north in the hopes of finding the house.This is an example of the ________ heuristic.

• A)algorithm
• B)working backward
• C)creating subgoals
• D)means-end analysis

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Definitions:

Population Proportion

The ratio of members in a group to the entire population that share a particular characteristic.

Alternative Hypothesis

In hypothesis testing, the hypothesis that proposes a difference or effect, contrary to the null hypothesis, which implies no effect or difference.

Null Hypothesis

A statement or assumption that there is no effect or no difference, and it serves as the starting point for statistical testing.

Sample Proportion

The fraction or percentage of observations in a sample that belong to a particular category, used to estimate the proportion in the entire population.