A Group of 20 Monitor Lizards Is Observed Over the Course

question 31

Multiple Choice

A group of 20 monitor lizards is observed over the course of the lizards' life spans.The total food consumption of each lizard is recorded and displayed on a bar graph.This presentation of raw information in a more user-friendly format is an example of:

• A) inferential statistics.
• B) simple random sampling.
• C) pictorial statistics.
• D) descriptive statistics.

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Definitions:

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The average of the squared differences from the mean, providing a measure of how spread out numbers are.

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Expected Value

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