A Study Was Done on the Campus of a Major

question 1

Multiple Choice

A study was done on the campus of a major state institution to measure attitudes of students to-wards the recent fee increase.One question asks respondents to rank the five fees they are willing to pay from 1=most willing to 5=least willing.This is scaled as a(n)

• A)nominal scale.
• B)ordinal scale.
• C)interval scale.
• D)ratio scale.
• E)None of these are correct.

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Definitions:

Z-Statistic

A score that expresses the number of standard deviations an element is from the mean of the population.

Single Mothers

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Significance Level

In statistical hypothesis testing, it is the threshold of probability below which the null hypothesis is rejected, indicating the likelihood that the observed results are due to chance.

Population Mean

The average value of a characteristic among all individuals or items within a defined population.