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The Practice of Statistics for AP

Found in: Page 5

Book edition 4th

Author(s) David Moore,Daren Starnes,Dan Yates

Pages 809 pages

ISBN 9781319113339

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Short Answer

Jake is a car buff who wants to find out more about the vehicles that students at his school drive. He gets permission to go to the student parking lot and record some data. Later, he does some research about each model of car on the Internet. Finally, Jake makes a spreadsheet that includes each car’s model, year, color, number of cylinders, gas mileage, weight, and whether it has a navigation system.
Who are the individuals in Jake’s study?

The cars which are parked in the parking lot considered as individual in Jake's Study

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Step 1: Given Scenario

Here Jake is a car buff who wants to find out more about the vehicles that students at his school drive.

He gets permission to go to the student parking lot and record some data.

Step 2: Consideration of Individuals

As here Jake developed his study on the car data at college parking lot, thus in Jake study Cars has considered as individuals.

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