You are planning a party and want to know how many cans of soda to bu. A genie offers to tell you either the mean number of cans guests will drink or the median number of cans, Which measure of center should you request and why? To make your answer concrete, suppose that you will have 30 guests and the genie will tell you either i=5 cans or M=3 cans. Which of these two measures would best help you to determine how many cans you should have on hand​

For a study comparing leisure activities of physical education students with those of other students, a researcher has randomly selected a ten percent sample of physical education students and one percent sample of non-physical education students for a list of students. what kind of sampling technique is this?

Atown located beside a river derives a large percentage of its revenues each year from the local logging industry. however, heavy traffic to and from the logging sites has increased pollution and contributed to soil erosion. this has also resulted in the loss of native bird species in the logged forests. which of the following is the most sustainable solution to this problem? protecting certain forested areas to allow the birds to recover relocating the equipment and vehicles to new forests for logging relocating the birds to new forests away from the town introducing new bird species to replace the species that have been lost reducing the number of trucks traveling through the forest by 10 percent

Abdid is an astronomer who has been observing objects that orbit the sun in the asteroid belt. he finds a previously undiscovered round, rocky object that is not similar in shape to the rest of the asteroids. what has abdid most likely found?