Hospitals Currently, there are 5723 registered hospitals in the United States.

a. Are the numbers of hospitals in different states discrete or continuous?

b. What is the level of measurement for the numbers of hospitals in different years? (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)

c. If a survey is conducted by randomly selecting 10 patients in every hospital, what type of sampling is used? (random, systematic, convenience, stratified, cluster)

d. If a survey is conducted by randomly selecting 20 hospitals and interviewing all of the members of each board of directors, what type of sampling is used? (random, systematic, convenience, stratified, cluster)

e. What is wrong with surveying patient satisfaction by mailing questionnaires to 10,000 randomly selected patients?