labels. Advertisers want consumers to believe that their product is manufactured
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labels. Advertisers want consumers to believe that their product is manufactured with 100% US labor and materials, which is not often the case. To answer the question "What does made in the USA mean to the typical consumer?" To answer this question, a group of researchers conducted an experiment at a shopping mall in Annandale, Virginia. They asked every four adult entrant to the mall to participate in the study. A total of 106 shoppers at the mall agreed to answer the question, "Made in the USA' means what percentage of U.S labor and material?" The responses of the 106 shoppers are summarized in the following table: Response to "Made in the USA" N Number of shoppers 100% 75% to 99% 50% to 74% Less than 50% 64 20 18 4 a.) Identify the type of the above data measured as quantitative or qualitative/categoricalssnh b.) Is the dataset 106 shoppers collected a population or a sample? c.) What is the variable of interest? nulation?Explanation / Answer
a)
The variable response to made in USA is qualitative, categorical variable as it has four categories of "100%", "75%-99%", 50%-74%" and "less than 50%". the variable number of Shoppers is quantitative variable as it can be measured on numeric scale.
b)
The collected data of 106 Shoppers is considered as a sample.
c)
The variable of interest is the proportion of number of Shoppers corresponding to the categories of response to "made in USA". for example there is 60% Shoppers who say "hundred percent to made in USA"
d)
The population is all adults of Virgiana.
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