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This document contains a chapter from a book about statistics. It includes multiple choice and true/false questions about types of data and appropriate ways to represent different types of data. The questions cover topics like nominal vs interval vs ordinal data, frequency distributions, pie charts and bar charts. The key at the end provides the answers to the multiple choice questions.

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ADMS 2320 Chapter 2 Questions PDF

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STATS DOESN’T SUCK!

~ CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 2 | Multiple Choice

1. Relative frequencies for all classes will always have a sum equal to...
a. the number of classes in the distribution
b. the size of one class width
c. one
d. the sample size

2. A study was conducted to investigate the effect of a coal-fire


generating plant upon the water quality of a river. As part of an
environmental impact study, fish were captured, tagged, and released.
The following information was recorded for each fish:

Sex (0=female, 1=male), Length (cm), Maturation (0=young, 1=adult),


Weight (g).

The scale of these variables is:...


a. nominal, interval, nominal, interval
b. nominal, interval, ordinal, interval
c. ordinal, interval, nominal, interval
d. ordinal, interval, ordinal, interval

3. A ‘modal class’ is the category in a frequency distribution that


contains:
a. more observations than any other category
b. less observations than any other category
c. the highest observed value in the data
d. the lowest observed value in the data setstatistics

4. Which type of data allows for all calculations to be performed?


a. Interval data
b. Nominal data
c. Ordinal data
d. All of these choices are true.

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5. For which data type are values simply arbitrary numbers (they do not
represent measurements or quantitites)?
a. Interval data
b. Nominal data
c. Ordinal data
d. None of these choices.

6. Levels of education labeled as elementary school, high school, some


college, and college graduate are examples of:
a. nominal random variable.
b. interval random variable.
c. ordinal random variable.
d. a parameter.

7. Frequencies are the only calculations that can be done for what type of
data?
a. Interval data
b. Nominal data
c. Ordinal data
d. None of these choices.

8. A pie chart would best suit which of the following?


a. The number of videos played at StatsDoesntSuck.com this semester.
b. The percentage of a charitable donation that goes to administrative costs
vs. directly to the charity.
c. The number of students in your class who received an A, B, C, D, F on
their exam.
d. All of these choices are true.

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9. Customers are being surveyed in regards to which car dealership they
best believed offered the best service. The choices offered were Jim
Trenway Chevrolet (J), Marshall Ford (M), Mylenbusch Auto Service
(S), and Milford Nissan (N). Based on the information given, what was
the percentage of customers that were identified Jim Trenway
Chevrolet as having offered the best service overall?

S J J J N J M S J N
N M J M S J M M J J
J J J S N M M J J S
S N J N S M J J N J

a. 1/2 = 0.5 or 50%


b. 18/40 = 0.45 or 45%
c. 18%
d. None of these choices.

10. Of the following statements, which one is not correct?


a. Pie charts graph relative frequency distributions.
b. Frequencies can be determined for each category by looking at a pie
chart.
c. The total percentage of all the slices of a pie chart is 100%.
d. The area of a slice of a pie chart is the proportion of all the individuals that
fall into that particular category.

11. Which format best displays two nominal variables?


a. cross-classification table.
b. frequency distribution table.
c. cumulative percentage distribution table.
d. scatter diagram.

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TRUE / FALSE

12. The age of a person is an interval variable.

13. The age groups of movie-goers (3-13, 14-64, 65+) is an interval


variable.

14. The letter grades assigned at the end of semester by your professor
are nominal.

15. Categories and their counts are listed on a relative frequency


distribution.

16. Nominal data can be tracked through bar and pie charts. The bar
charts are able to express the number of occurrences per category
while pie charts express the proportional occurrences per category.

Chapter 2 MCQ Answer Key


1c 2b 3a 4a 5b 6c 7b 8b 9b 10b

11a 12T 13F 14F 15F 16T

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