A grocery store was introducing a new product by setting up a display for people totry the product. Between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm, 11 people tried the product. Out ofthose 11 people, 1 said they did not like it, 5 said they were undecided, and 5 saidthat they liked it. The store manager said that this survey was biased but the storeowner thought that the survey was not biased.What is TRUE about the survey?It is biased because people were only asked to try the product between 2:00p.m. and 3:00 p.m.It is not biased because the people who tried the product chose to participate inthe survey.It is biased because almost half of the people said that they were undecidedabout the product.It is not biased because 5 times as many people like the product compared tothose who do not.

As the survey is conducted on a particular time it may be possible that people were not in mood to…

A grocery store was introducing a new product by setting up a display for people to try the product. Between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm, 11 people tried the product. Out of those 11 people, 1 said they did not like it, 5 said they were undecided, and 5 said that they liked it. The store manager said that this survey was biased but the store owner thought that the survey was not biased.

A grocery store was introducing a new product by setting up a display for people to try the product. Between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm, 11 people tried the product. Out of those 11 people, 1 said they did not like it, 5 said they were undecided, and 5 said that they liked it. The store manager said that this survey was biased but the store owner thought that the survey was not biased.

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012

1st Edition

ISBN:9780547587776

Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Publisher:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability

Section11.4: Collecting Data

Problem 6E

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