Please answer all questions using the last page below Chapter 1 For the informat

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Please answer all questions using the last page below Chapter 1 For the information in parts (a) through (e) below, list the highest level of measurement as ratio, interval, ordinal, or nominal, and explain your choice. A restaurant manager is developing a clientele profile. Some of the information for the profile follows: (a) Gender of diners (b) Size of groups dining together (e) Time of day the last diner of the evening departs (d) Age grouping: young, middle age, senior (e) Length of time a diner waits for a table. 2. Categorize the style of gathering data (sampling, experiment, simulation, or census) for the following situations. (a) Consider all the students enrolled at your college this semester, and report the age of each (b) Select a sample of new pickup trucks, and count the number of manufacturer defects in each (c) Use computer graphics to determine the flight path of a golf ball when the position of the (d) Teach one section of English composition using a specific word-processing package, and student. truck. hand on the golf club is changed. teach another without using any computerized word processing. Count the number of grammar errors made by students in each section on a final draft of a 20-page term paper 3. Label each of the following numerical measures as a statistic or a parameter (a) The minimum time to run a mile for a random sample of 40 police recruits. (b) The median time to run a mile for all NCAA track meets for men's races in 1995 (c) The mean time to run a mile from a sample of 20 participants in a charity event.

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a) Gender of diners - Nominal Scale because the data is categorical named male and female

b) Size of groups dining together - Ratio Scale

c) Time of day the last diner of the evening departs - Interval Scale because we can find the differences

d) Age grouping : Young, Middle age, senior - Ordinal Scale because the data is categorical and can be arranged in order

e) Length of time a diner waits for a table: - Ratio Scale because

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