TABLE 4-2 An Alcohol Awareness Task Force at a Big-Ten University Sampled

question 63

Multiple Choice

TABLE 4-2
An alcohol awareness task force at a Big-Ten university sampled 200 students after the midterm to ask them whether they went bar hopping the weekend before the midterm or spent the weekend studying, and whether they did well or poorly on the midterm. The following result was obtained.

-Referring to Table 4-2, the events "Did Well on Midterm" and "Did Poorly on Midterm" are

• A) dependent.
• B) mutually exclusive.
• C) collective exhaustive.
• D) All of the above.

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Definitions:

Quantifier

1. In traditional logic, the element in a statement’s logical form that indicates particular or universal quantity; 2. In predicate logic, the element in a statement that indicates whether a variable represents all or some of the things in the world.

Proposition

A declaration that presents an evaluation or viewpoint, which may either be correct or incorrect.

Predicate

The part of a sentence or proposition that tells something about the subject, such as an action, condition, or effect.

Categorical Proposition

A proposition containing a subject and a predicate term and asserting that some or all of the referents of the subject term are included in or excluded from the class designated by the predicate term.