Proportion Is Calculated by Taking the Number of Observations in a Category

question 34

Multiple Choice

Proportion is calculated by taking the number of observations in a category and __________ that number by the grand total of observations in the sample.

• A) adding
• B) multiplying
• C) dividing
• D) subtracting

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