Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780077837303
Author: David Doane, Lori Seward Senior Instructor of Operations Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2.3, Problem 16SE
Would you use a sample or a census to measure each of the following? Why? If you are uncertain explain the issues.
- a. The
mean time battery life of your laptop computer in continuous use. - b. The number of students in your statistics class who brought laptop computers to class today.
- c. The average price paid for a laptop computer by students at your university.
- d. The percentage of disk space available on laptop computers owned by your five closest friends
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