Understanding Basic Statistics
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781305254060
Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Critical Thinking Alisha wants to do a statistical study to determine how long it takes people to complete a Sudoku puzzle (see Problem 1 for a description of the puzzle). Her plan is as follows:
Download 10 different puzzles from the Internet.
Find 10 friends willing to participate.
Ask each friend to complete one of the puzzles and time him- or herself.
Gather the completion times from each friend.
Describe some of the problems with Alisha’s plan for the study. (Note: Puzzles differ in difficulty,
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Understanding Basic Statistics
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