An Elementary School Principal Wants to Know the Mean Number

question 61

Multiple Choice

An elementary school principal wants to know the mean number of children in families whose
Children attend this school. He checks all the families using the school's registration records, and we
Create a 95% confidence interval based on a t-distribution. This procedure was not appropriate.
Why?

• A) At a given school families are not randomly selected.
• B) The population standard deviation is known, so he should have used a z-model.
• C) The entire population of families was gathered so there is no reason to do inference.
• D) Since these families are from only one school, the family sizes may be skewed.
• E) The recent record-setting family with twelve children is probably an outlier.

---

Definitions:

Cladogram

A diagram used in cladistics which shows relations among organisms based on shared derived characteristics.

Phylogeny

Evolutionary history of a species or group of species.

Clade

A group of taxa whose members share one or more defining derived traits.

Genetic Variation

The diversity in gene frequencies within a population, contributing to the population's adaptability.