Consider the following experiment. You are one of 100 people enlisted to take part in a study
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Consider the following experiment. You are one of 100 people enlisted to take part in a study to determine the percent of nurses in America with an R.N. (registered nurse) degree. You ask nurses if they have an R.N. degree. The nurses answer “yes” or “no.” You then calculate the percentage of nurses with an R.N. degree. You give that percentage to your supervisor.
a. What part of the experiment will yield discrete data?
b. What part of the experiment will yield continuous data?
Carbon-14 is a radioactive element with a half-life of about 5,730 years. Carbon-14 is said to decay exponentially. The decay rate is 0.000121. We start with one gram of carbon-14.
We are interested in the time (years) it takes to decay carbon-14.
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Introductory Business Statistics
ISBN: 202318
1st Edition
Authors: Alexander Holmes , Barbara Illowsky , Susan Dean