Students who have read the first chapter of the textbook and theorize that performance on statistics exams will be related to the number of hours spent studying statistics know that to test their theory,they will need to use
A)common sense.
B)reasoning by analogy.
C)inferential statistics.
D)intuition.

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To test their theory, students would need to use inferential statistics to analyze the relationship between the number of hours spent studying statistics and performance on statistics exams. Inferential statistics uses sample data to make inferences about a population, which would be necessary to obtain meaningful results for the theory. Common sense, reasoning by analogy, and intuition would not provide the necessary statistical analysis to test this theory.

Students Who Have Read the First Chapter of the Textbook