TABLE 1-2 a Wall Street Journal Poll Asked 2,150 Adults in the in the U.S

question 115

Multiple Choice

TABLE 1-2
A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the U.S. a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S. economy.
-Referring to Table 1-2, the possible responses to the question "On the scale of 1 to 100 with 1 being extremely anxious and 100 being total not anxious, rate your level of anxiety in this U.S. economy" are values from a

• A) discrete numerical random variable.
• B) continuous numerical random variable.
• C) categorical random variable.
• D) parameter.

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