The Price of a New Car Is $20 000 While

question 39

Multiple Choice

The price of a new car is $20 000 while the price of a five-year old car of the same brand is $8 000.The next year the price of the new car increases to $22 000 and the price of a five-year old car of the same brand is $8 800.The relative price of the used car

• A)increased by $800.
• B)decreased by 10 percent.
• C)increased by 10 percent.
• D)remained constant at 0.4.

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Definitions:

Directional

Refers to a hypothesis or test that specifies the expected direction of the relationship or difference between variables.

Critical Value(s)

Critical values are key points used to determine the region of rejection for a null hypothesis in statistical testing, ensuring the test's validity under specific confidence levels.

Non-directional

A hypothesis that does not specify the direction of the expected difference or relationship, indicating only that there is a difference.

Z-statistic

A numerical indicator that shows how a specific value compares to the average of a dataset, expressed as the number of standard deviations away from the mean.