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In a survey among college students a researcher asks the following question: “Approximately how many cans of soft drink do you consume a week?     ________  number of cans”. The researcher finds for this question that the mean of weekly amount of soft drink consumption by males and females is about the same, but that the standard deviation among males is greater than that for females. Which of the following statements is true?

Q28: What is the standard error of the sample mean for samples of size 256 from this population?

Consider the following statement from a respondent:         “Toyota vehicles have above average resale value”   Which dimension of attitude toward the Toyota brand does this statement reflect?  

Suppose you are trying to measure the annual sales of cans of soft drink brand X.  To measure this you ask the following question:         “Roughly how many cans of soft drink X do you purchase in a given year?    _______cans   Which of the following is true?

Your manager approaches you after a meeting and states “Should we increase the price of our product?” She asks you to start up a marketing research project. Which of the following is true?

Q32: Using the test statistic above, determine the corresponding two-tailed p-value using the table available on CARMEN (the exam appendix).  Write down your work on paper and email an image to faculty after the exam.

How does a researcher determine which set of clustering variables is best?  

Q38 Using the regression output above, what is the sales prediction for a month in which the store is 6 months old with a price of $21.00 dollars? Write down your work on paper and send an image to faculty after the exam.  

Q34 Suppose the researcher wishes to estimate the mean of beliefs about the ability of a child to get a good education across the population of all males.  Using the information in the table above, calculate a 90% confidence interval for this value.  Enter the values of the interval below.  Write down any work on paper and email an image to faculty after the exam.

Which of the following techniques could not be used in analyzing the survey results for the following question (given to automobile owners)   How much did you pay for your most recent automobile purchase?      (0) 0-15,000         (1) 15,001 – 30,000        (2) 30,001 – 45,000        (3) 45,001 – 60,000        (4) 60,001+