The External Ice Cube Chute on Cade's Refrigerator Door Was

question 73

Multiple Choice

The external ice cube chute on Cade's refrigerator door was not working properly. She could hear the ice falling into the chute, but nothing would come out. She looked inside and realized there was a solid block of ice clogging the chute, and she couldn't get it loose. Cade decided to use a hair dryer to melt the ice, and it worked. Cade's using a hair dryer in a new way represents _____.

• A) counterfactual thinking
• B) prefactual thinking
• C) use innovativeness
• D) usage expansion
• E) extended use thinking

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Definitions:

First Quartile

The 25th percentile of a data set, below which lies 25% of the data.

Skewness

A measure of the shape of a data distribution. Data skewed to the left result in negative skewness; a symmetric data distribution results in zero skewness; and data skewed to the right result in positive skewness.

Skewed Right

A distribution of data where most values are concentrated on the left side, with the tail extending to the right.

Measure

A method or tool used for quantifying the characteristics or magnitude of a given phenomenon or attribute.