A Statistics Professor Has Just Given the Final Examination in His

question 71

Essay

A statistics professor has just given the final examination in his introductory statistics course. In particular, he is interested in learning how his class of 50 students performed on this exam. The data are shown below.
-(A) Technically, this process does not yield a random sample of the books in the store. Why not?
(B) How could a truly random sample be obtained?

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