An appliance store sells microwave ovens and has many different styles to choose from. A handout from the store contains details about brand, price, number of power settings, and color. What are the individuals in this data set?

a) microwave ovens
b) brands
c) prices
d) colors

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Answer:

  a) microwave ovens

Step-by-step explanation:

Since we don't know what the dataset is, we cannot say with certainty what its elements are. The first sentence talks about microwave ovens, so it may be reasonable to assume that will be the members of the data set.

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Additional comments

In computer programming terms (as for a shopping web site, for example), the data set would consist of tuples of ...

  (brand, price, number of power settings, color)

and perhaps other attributes, such as dimensions, home/commercial, length of warranty, and more. That is, the appropriate answer would be "all of the above."

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Answer:

A

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