Question

Each customer entering a department store will either buy or not buy some merchandise. An experiment consists of the following 3 customers and determining whether or not they purchase any merchandise. The number of sample points in this experiment is___.

(a) 8 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 4

Answer 1

A) 8

Step-by-step explanation:

In statistics, a sample point is the observed value of variable. To determine the number of sample points you have to calculate the number of options: 2 (to purchase or not to purchase), and then use the exponential rule by the number of customers: 2³ = 2 x 2 x 2 = 8