Provide an Appropriate Response

question 169

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-Recognizing that overloading a parking garage would lead to unsafe conditions, you want to determine the
Average (mean) weight of vehicles parked in the garage. You choose a sample of vehicles. The next step in the
Statistical study would be to

• A)weigh each selected vehicle and then find the mean of these weights.
• B)determine the goal of your study.
• C)make an inference about the mean weight of all vehicles.
• D)determine the population parameter and the margin of error.

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