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1.2 Exercise 69

Avg difficulty 2.5

Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: A study was done to determine the age, number of times per week, and the duration (amount of time) of resident use of a local park in San Jose. The first house in the neighborhood around the park was selected randomly and then every 8th house in the neighborhood around the park was interviewed.

List some practical difficulties involved in getting accurate results from a mailed survey.

OpenStax Statistics, 1.2 Data, Sampling, and Variation in Data and Sampling, exercise 69

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