Question

Each customer entering a department store will either buy or not buy some merchandise. An experiment consists of following 4 customers and determining whether or not they purchase any merchandise. How many sample points exist in the above experiment? (Note that each customer is either a purchaser or non-purchaser.)
A. 2B. 4C. 6D. 8E. none of the above

Answer 1

Answer:

A. 2 There are two sample points in the experiment

Explanation:

In statistics, a sample point is the possible result of an experiment.

In this experiment a customer can be defined as a purchaser or a non purchaser, so this are the two results we can get after the experiment. Then there are just 2 sample points: purschaser or non - purchaser