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A magazine article favorably mentions your business. Do you:

Suppose you want to learn how often chemistry students attending a local college visit the student fitness center on campus. You interviewed students from the chemistry department who have an athletic build. Is the sample likely to be representative of the population of interest?

You’re planning a study in which the person measuring the response should be aware of the assigned treatment, but the subject should not. Which of the following experiments should be used?

Suppose you’re evaluating the effect of using duck vs. chicken eggs on the cooking time of a cake made using a standard recipe. You’ll be making four cakes with chicken eggs and four cakes with duck eggs and comparing the average of the four cooking times for each egg type. You have two different types of flour and two different sizes of cake pans. You know that both flour type and pan size can affect cooking time. Which of the following approaches would prevent the flour type and pan size from acting as confounding variables? I) Use one flour type to make all the chicken egg cakes and the other flour type to make all the duck egg cakes. II) Use the larger pans to make all the duck egg cakes and the smaller pans to make all the chicken egg cakes. III) Ensure that both flour types and pan sizes are used to make both the chicken egg cakes and the duck egg cakes.

A survey form regarding preferred breakfast food choices solicits the following responses: I) Preferred hot beverage (coffee, tea, or cocoa) II) Preferred entrée (omelet, pancakes, or sausages) III) Amount of hot beverage consumed (cups) IV) Age of the respondent Which of these represents categorical data?

The following variables are commonly used to describe human appearance: I) Eye color (blue, green, brown, grey) II) Hair color (brown, black, blond, grey) III) Hair length IV) Waist circumference Which of these variables are categorical?

Measurement (response) bias could result from which of the following? I) An improperly calibrated assessment tool used to weigh survey responses II) A survey that includes leading questions III) Appearance or behavior of the person asking the survey questions

Match the below Homework Assignments with their respective due dates.

Students MAY turn in late Homework Assignments for a 10-point reduction in credit for each day the assignment is late.