You Are Shopping in a Department Store

question 206

Multiple Choice

You are shopping in a department store. A store manager asks you to step into his office. He closes the door and tells you he thinks you have hidden merchandise in your clothing. You say nonsense. He says you will sit there until you confess or allow yourself to be searched. You refuse. He says, "We will see about that!" The two of you sit there for an hour. Finally, he tells you to leave. This is probably:

• A) a tort of false imprisonment
• B) not false imprisonment because you could have walked out
• C) not false imprisonment because no physical force was used
• D) not false imprisonment but may well be battery
• E) not false imprisonment because state laws allow store owners to detain shoplifters

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Definitions:

Skewed To The Left

Describes a distribution of data where the tail is longer on the left side of the distribution graph, indicating that the bulk of the data points are to the right.

Symmetric

Refers to a balance or similarity between two halves of an object, dataset, or distribution where each side is a mirror image of the other.

Percent Frequency

The relative frequency of an event or characteristic expressed as a percentage of the total number of occurrences or observations.