As they leave a popular grocery store, 73 people are stopped and the number of fruit and vegetable items they purchased is counted. 

a. What is the size of the sample? 

b. Identify the population. 

c. If this number of items counted is used to estimate the diets of all shoppers, is it a descriptive statistic or an inferential statistic? 

d. How might you operationalize the amount of fruit and vegetable items purchased as a nominal measure? 

e. How might you operationalize the amount of fruit and vegetable items purchased as an ordinal measure? 

f. How might you operationalize the amount of fruit and vegetable items purchased as a scale measure?