Using a Hand-Delivered Poster, Jasmine Has Decided to Ask All

question 12

Multiple Choice

Using a hand-delivered poster, Jasmine has decided to ask all the people in her apartment building for ideas about where she should look for a job for the summer. Why will this tactic likely bring her success?

• A) because most people in the building have to be employed and therefore are more likely to know of employment opportunities
• B) because many people in the building may not be employed and therefore likely know which places may be hiring
• C) because most people in the building are likely to be strangers and therefore have a wide range of diverse connections
• D) because most people would be impressed by such innovation and daring, and happily recommend her

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Definitions:

Population Mean

The average of all the values in a population.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of a statistic (such as the mean) computed from a sample, over repeated sampling from the same population.

Variability

The extent to which data points differ from each other and from the mean of the data set.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution that indicates the probabilities of a given statistic, which is acquired from a random sample.