To Determine Voters' Feelings Regarding an Issue, a Candidate Asks

question 149

Multiple Choice

To determine voters' feelings regarding an issue, a candidate asks a sample of people to pick 5 words out of a set of 6 words that they feel best describe the issue. How many different groupings of 5 words are possible? ​

• A)121
• B)30
• C)7,776
• D)720
• E)6

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Definitions:

Positively Skewed Distribution

A type of distribution where the tail on the right side of the distribution's peak is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that the bulk of the values lie to the left of the mean.

Distribution

The manner in which a statistical data or a population is spread out or arranged over a range of values.

Empirical Rules

Practical guidelines based on observed data which are used to interpret statistical distributions, notably the 68-95-99.7 (or three-sigma) rule for normal distributions.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, often used to quantify the spread of a probability distribution.