Question

1. A researcher measured the time that a sample of students selected from Caldwell University spent studying on a given week during a semester. Here are the data in hours:

4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 7, 8, 6, 5, 7, 8, 9, 9,1, 0, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 3, 7, 8, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 7, 6, 21, 7, 8, 9,2, 3, 2

ANSWER the following questions based on the information given in question #9

Name the population:_____________________________________________________________

Name the sample:________________________________________________________________

How many participants are in the sample?_____________________________________________

What is the scale of measurement?___________________________________________________

Is the scale continuous or discrete? ___________________________________

9a. Use SPSS to compute the following (using the data from question 9):

-generate a frequency table

-the appropriate graph

-mean

-median

-mode

PASTE your SPSS results here:

Answer 1

population: All students from Caldwell University

sample: randomly selected 37 students from Caldwell University

number of participants in the sample are 37

the time is spent studying on a given week during a semester is measured by the ratio scale of measurement.

the time is spent studying on a given week during a semester is a continuous variable

-generate a frequency table

-the appropriate graph

-mean , -median , -mode