A Statistics Student Found a Reference in the Campus Library

question 129

Multiple Choice

A statistics student found a reference in the campus library that contained the median family incomes for all 50 states. She would report her data collection method as

• A) a designed experiment.
• B) observational data.
• C) a random sample.
• D) a published source.

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