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1.1 Exercise 23

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Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: A Lake Tahoe Community College instructor is interested in the mean number of days Lake Tahoe Community College math students are absent from class during a quarter.

Consider the following:

X X = number of days a Lake Tahoe Community College math student is absent

In this case, X is an example of a:

  1. variable.
  2. population.
  3. statistic.
  4. data.

OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 1.1 Definitions of Statistics, Probability, and Key Terms, exercise 23

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