​ If a Shopper in a Store Is Falsely Accused

question 10

Multiple Choice

​ If a shopper in a store is falsely accused of shoplifting in public but no criminal charges were brought, it may give rise to a civil suit alleging:

• A)slander.
• B)libel.
• C)false detention.
• D)malicious prosecution.

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Definitions:

Credit Purchases

Transactions where goods or services are bought using credit rather than cash or debit, to be paid off at a later date.

Confidence Interval

A collection of values, sourced from statistical study of a sample, likely holding the unknown quantity of a population parameter.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis without violating any constraints.

T Distribution

A type of probability distribution that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.