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Chapter 1: Q 9. (page 8)

Multiple Choice Select the best answer.

Exercises 9 and 10 refer to the following setting. At the Census Bureau website www.census.gov, you can view detailed data collected by the American Community Survey.

The following table includes data for 10 people chosen at random from the more than 1 million people in households contacted by the survey. “School” gives the highest level of education completed.

The individuals in this data set are

(a) households.

(b) people.

(c) adults.

(d) 120 variables.

(e) columns

Short Answer

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Option (b) people is correct.

Step by step solution

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Step 1. Given information.

The given table is:

The given table contains data for ten persons picked at random from the survey's more than 1 million household contacts.

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Step 2. Choose the most appropriate response.

A data set is a collection of data that pertains to a group of people. People, animals, and things are all examples of individuals.

In the given question we are provided with five options which are households, people, adults, 120 variables, and columns.

We have to tell which option will be the individual according to the given table.

We can observe from the table that the data it is showing is related to "people".

Therefore the individuals will be "people", which means the option (b) is correct.

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