Six People Have Declared Their Intentions to Run for a Seat

question 112

Short Answer

Six people have declared their intentions to run for a seat on the school board in the next local election. A poll is conducted during the campaign among 1,020 randomly sampled voters to determine if there is any clear preference among the voters. The responses are shown below. How many degrees of freedom are there?

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Definitions:

Diseconomies Of Scale

Situations where a firm's costs per unit increase as the scale of production increases, typically due to inefficiencies that arise from becoming too large.

Diminishing Returns

A principle stating that if one input in the production of a commodity is increased while other inputs are held fixed, a point will eventually be reached at which additions of the input yield progressively smaller, or diminishing, increases in output.

Diminishing Returns

A principle in economics that states as one input variable is incrementally increased, there comes a point when the rate of resultant output begins to decrease.

Variable Inputs

Inputs, such as labor and materials, whose usage changes according to the level of production.