The table shows the mean number of basketball goals made by four random samples of players from the school team during this year’s season. Sample # Sample Mean Number of Goals 1 7 2 4 3 5 4 8 Is a valid prediction for the mean of the population possible using these samples? No, there are not enough samples. Yes, the sample means are all less than 10. Yes, the variation of the sample means is small. No, the variation of the sample means is too great.

In 2000, for a certain region, 27.1% of incoming college freshman characterized their political views as liberal, 23.1% as moderate, and 49.8% as conservative. for this year, a random sample of 400 incoming college freshman yielded the frequency distribution for political views shown below. a. determine the mode of the data. b. decide whether it would be appropriate to use either the mean or the median as a measure of center. explain your answer. political view frequency liberal 118 moderate 98 conservative 184 a. choose the correct answer below. select all that apply. a. the mode is moderate. b. the mode is liberal. c. the mode is conservative. d. there is no mode.