Question

Carr combines personal experiences and research from scholarly sources as evidence to support his claims

a) Merchandise Inventory for $1,620.
b) Merchandise Inventory for $1,621.
c) Merchandise Inventory for $1,622.
d) None

Answer 1

The question pertains to Business and involves the analysis of pricing and standard deviation for a computer and the appropriate statistical distribution to use for used car sales with a normal distribution of prices.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question appears to relate to Business, specifically to the analysis of pricing and standard deviation in the context of economics or statistics. The given fragments discuss index numbers, the messiness of prices in a basket of goods, and the specific example of computer prices with a claimed narrow standard deviation. The question regarding the used car sales costs suggests an exploration of statistical distribution in decision-making.

For exercise 128, a consumer is trying to understand if the pricing of a computer has a larger standard deviation than the manufacturer claims, which involves calculating the actual standard deviation from the given prices and comparing it to the claimed deviation. For exercise 112, the question suggests using a distribution that fits the normal distribution characteristics due to the sample size and context, typically the t-distribution for smaller sample sizes or the normal distribution for larger samples.