A Bakery Makes Three Types of Muffins to Be Distributed

question 27

Multiple Choice

A bakery makes three types of muffins to be distributed to local grocery stores: chocolate chip, blueberry, and banana nut. Each morning, the bakers produce 360 chocolate chip muffins, 420 blueberry muffins, and 180 banana nut. They want to package the muffins efficiently for shipping. The plan is to pack them in boxes so that every box has just one kind of muffin, and every box has the same number of muffins. What's the smallest number of boxes they can ship in total?

• A) 16 boxes
• B) 960 boxes
• C) 3 boxes
• D) 60 boxes

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Definitions:

Indicator Variable

A binary variable that takes the value of 1 if a certain condition is true and 0 if it is false, used in statistical analysis.

Interval Variable

An interval variable is a type of numerical data that is measured along a scale, where the distance between each point is uniform and meaningful, but does not have a true zero point.

Stepwise Regression

A method of regression analysis in which variables are added or removed from the model in a step-by-step manner based on specific criteria.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment that are manipulated or altered by the researcher to determine their effect on the dependent variable.