EBK STATISTICAL REASONING FOR EVERYDAY
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Chapter 7.2, Problem 7E
Does It Make Sense? For Exercises 5–8, determine whether the statement makes sense (or is clearly true) or does not make sense (or is clearly false). Explain clearly; not all of these statements have definitive answers, so your explanation is more important than your chosen answer.
- 7. Births. A study showed that for one town, as the stork population increased, the number of human births in the town also increased. It therefore follows that the increase in the stork population caused the number of births to increase.
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EBK STATISTICAL REASONING FOR EVERYDAY
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