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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 which of the following?

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

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

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