TABLE 1-1 The Manager of the Customer Service Division of a Major

question 127

Multiple Choice

TABLE 1-1
The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a videocassette recorder made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products.
-Referring to Table 1-1, the possible responses to the question "How much time do you use the videocassette recorder every week on the average?" are values from a

• A) continuous numerical random variable.
• B) discrete numerical random variable.
• C) categorical random variable.
• D) parameter.

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Exclusive Representative

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Agency Shop Provision

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Representation Elections

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