Target Stores Is Evaluating Several Locations for Locating a New

question 3

Multiple Choice

Target Stores is evaluating several locations for locating a new Super-Target Super-Center. To do this, a traffic counting machine records the number of cars passing each location every day of the week for a 3-month period. This is an example of which kind of observation situation?

• A) people watching people
• B) people watching phenomena
• C) machines watching people
• D) machines watching phenomena
• E) none of the above

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