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A county planning commission is attempted to survey 1500 households from the counties 400,000 households. A random sample was selected and surveys were mailed to the randomly selected households, but only 1075 were returned. The inability to collect data from the 425 households that didn't return the survey would be considered which type of sampling problem?
 
  A) nonresponse bias B) selection bias C) measurement error

Question 2

Which number could be the probability of an event that rarely occurs?
 
  A) .51 B) .99 C) .01 D) -.01



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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