As Part of an Economics Class Project, Students Were Asked

Multiple Choice

As part of an economics class project, students were asked to randomly select 500 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stocks from the Wall Street Journal. As part of the project, students were asked to
Summarize the current prices (also referred to as the closing price of the stock for a particular
Trading date) of the collected stocks using graphical and numerical techniques. Identify the data
Collection method used in this study.

A) data from a designed experiment
B) data collected observationally
C) data from a published source