Provide an Appropriate Response

question 89

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-A district administrator wants to determine the effect of truancy on academic achievement. In an effort to 'blind'
The experiment, she asks the dean at one high school to randomly select the records of 50 truant students and
Asks the dean at another high school to randomly select the records of 50 nontruant students. Identify any
Problems that are likely to cause confounding.

• A)the use of two different deans as selectors
• B)the use of cases from two different schools
• C)analysis by the district administrator
• D)nothing (this is a well-designed retrospective study)

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Definitions:

Sales Price

The amount of money charged for a product or service, or the value that customers are willing to pay.

Demand Curve

A graphical representation showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded by consumers at those prices.

Yield Management

A variable pricing strategy based on understanding, anticipating, and influencing consumer behavior to maximize revenue from a fixed, perishable resource.