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d. Is the firm‟s goal to conduct descriptive or <strong>in</strong>ferential statistics<br />

3. In a quality control process, 250 packages of cheese are randomly selected from an<br />

assembly l<strong>in</strong>e. Each package of cheese will be described as either “pass” or “fail,”<br />

depend<strong>in</strong>g on whether or not it passes the <strong>in</strong>spection.<br />

a. Describe the sample.<br />

b. Describe the population.<br />

c. Quality control will fail if more than 1% of the packages fail. How many<br />

packages must pass<br />

4. Two datasets have a range of 30. Describe how it is possible that one dataset is<br />

considered to be more spread out that the other dataset.<br />

5. One hundred randomly selected CGCC students are surveyed and asked, “Do you believe<br />

that racism is an issue <strong>in</strong> the college sett<strong>in</strong>g” The survey makers would like to generalize<br />

to college students. What is wrong with their study<br />

<strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Decision</strong>-<strong>Mak<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>in</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess © Milos Podmanik Page 20

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