One of Your Colleagues Has Purchased a New Personal Computer

question 82

Essay

One of your colleagues has purchased a new personal computer for her husband. She just read an article online at the National Safety Council Web site, and learned that an estimated 500 million computers were obsolete by the year 2007. She also learned that an estimated 1 billion floppy disks, CDs, and DVDs end up in landfills every year with more than 2 million tons of computer parts which contain toxic substances. Your colleague wonders if she should include software along with the old computer when she donates or sells it. What would you tell her about the legal transfer of software?

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Definitions:

Interval Data

Data type where intervals between values are interpretable, but there is no true zero point.

Continuous Variables

Variables that can take on an infinite number of values within a given range.

Ratio Data

Ratio data is a type of quantitative data that enables the measurement of variables in defined units, allowing for a full range of descriptive statistics, including true zero values and proportional comparisons.

Nominal Variables

Variables that represent categories with no inherent order or ranking among them.