MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Answer true or false. 1) The information we gather with experiments and with surveys is collectively called data. A) True B) False 1) Provide an appropriate response. 2) A survey of 1500 American households found that 33% of the respondents own a computer. Is this value a parameter or a statistic? A) parameter B) statistic 2) SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question. Fill in the blank. 3) The three main aspects of statistics are , , and . 3) MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Answer true or false. 4) A large company would like to know what percentage of it's employees would utilize an on-site daycare facility. Rather than asking it's 5000 employees, each employee is assigned a number from 1 to 5000 and then a computer program is used to randomly select 100 numbers between 1 and 5000. These employees are then contacted and asked whether they would use an on-site daycare facility. The method used to collect the sample of 100 responses produces a random sample. A) True B) False 4) 5) Based on 12,000 responses from 55,000 questionnaires sent to its alumni, a major university estimated that the annual salary of its alumni was $98,500 per year. This sample was collected using random sampling. A) False B) True 5) 6) Inferential statistics are used when data are available only for a sample; however, descriptive statistics are used when data are available for either a sample or a population. A) False B) True