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This document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to statistics concepts such as normal distributions, percentiles, probabilities, sampling, measures of central tendency, and descriptive statistics. The questions cover topics like finding percentiles and probabilities for normally distributed data, checking assumptions of normality, identifying independent and dependent variables in experiments, differences between primary and secondary data, and selecting the best measures to compare variation between samples.

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This document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to statistics concepts such as normal distributions, percentiles, probabilities, sampling, measures of central tendency, and descriptive statistics. The questions cover topics like finding percentiles and probabilities for normally distributed data, checking assumptions of normality, identifying independent and dependent variables in experiments, differences between primary and secondary data, and selecting the best measures to compare variation between samples.

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Q1) Assume that an IQ marks are approximately normally distributed with a mean of

85 and a standard deviation of 4. Find the percentile (88.1% ) of the marks?

Q2) Assume that physical test scores are normally distributed in the population with
mu = 400 and sigma = 100 What is the probability that the mean of 16 randomly
person will have a physical test score above 412.5?

Q3) The time to complete a task on a project is normally distributed with mean of 75
hours and a standard deviation of hours A random sample of 4 project tasks are
selected, what is the probability that all project tasks completion time are less than
70 hours.

Q4) A normal population has a mean mu = 12.2 and standard deviation 2.4 Find the
median of the population=

Q5)The length of women athlete throws a hammer is distributed normal with mean
50 feet and standard deviation 5 feet . What is the probability a women's throws is
between 55 feet and 60 feet?

Q6) If the scores of an intelligence test has bill shape distribution , with mean 85 and
the standard deviation Use the empirical rule to find an interval that contains
approximately 95% of the scores.

Q7) Scores for Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not normally distributed with a
mean=6 and SD =3.
A random sample of 36 child have Autism were selected.
a ) Check the assumption of normality
b ) What is the probability that the sample average score will be less than 6.5?
Q8) In a class with 11students , the sorted grades in exam are: A, A, A, B, B, B, C, C, C,
D, D What are the median , and the mode of the data

Q9) Scores from the UCLA Loneliness Scale are normally distributed with u=50 and σ
= 10. What is the 98.3th percentile (98.3%) of the loneliness score?

Q11) The standard normal distribution Z


A)has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1
b) has a mean of 1 and a variance of 0
c) has an area under the curve equal to 0.5
d) has a standard deviation of 0 and a mean of 1

Q12) A researcher uses an experiment to study the effect of age on memory. In this
experiment, the Independent Variable is :
a) memory
b) age
c) both age and memory
d) neither age nor memory

Q13)The process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions about true population
parameters is:
a) Descriptive statistics
b) Primary data
c) Statistical inference
d) Secondary data

)Q14) Employment Status (employed, unemployed) is an example of a(n)


nominal
b) ordinal
c) interval
d) ratio
Q15) Which measures of central location are affected by extremely small and
extremely large values of data values :
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) none of the above

Q16) A researcher used a procedure to select a sample of n objects from a


population in such a way that each member of the population is chosen strictly by
chance, is equally likely to be chosen, and every possible sample of size n has the
same chance of selection. The researcher should use :
a) Systematic random sample
b) Cluster random sample
c) Simple random sample
d) Stratified random sample

Q17) If you want to compare the variation between two samples involving two
different quantitative variables with different measurement scales, then the most
appropriate measure to compare the variations is :
a) Variance
b) Coefficient of variation
c) Range
d) Interquartile range

Q18)Data we collect by ourselves for a specific purpose is:


a) Secondary data
b) Primary data
c) Quantitative data
d) Qualitative data

Q19)In general, which of the following descriptive summary measures cannot be


found from a boxplot.
a) The variance
b) The interquartile range
c) The median
d) The range

Q20) A histogram for home prices shows that the distribution shaped is skewed to
right Which of the following measures would provide best measure of variation for
the data?
A)mode
B ) A five-number summary
C) Standard deviation
D) IQR

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