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This document provides a summary of a COMM 215 tutorial held on January 20, 2023. The tutorial covered Chapter 1 on introductions and Chapter 2 on descriptive statistics using tables and graphs. The lecturer was Lidiia Shchichko and the document contains sample multiple choice questions for students about topics related to variables, data visualization, and sampling.

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Tutorial 1 - Questions

This document provides a summary of a COMM 215 tutorial held on January 20, 2023. The tutorial covered Chapter 1 on introductions and Chapter 2 on descriptive statistics using tables and graphs. The lecturer was Lidiia Shchichko and the document contains sample multiple choice questions for students about topics related to variables, data visualization, and sampling.

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COMM 215 – Tutorial No.

1
January 20, 2023

Tutorial Lecturer Lidiia Shchichko


Contact lidiia.shchichko@concordia
Today’s Coverage
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – Descriptive Statistics: Tabular/Graphical

I thank James Peters for the question pool and for the design of the
documents for COMM215 tutorials.
QUESTION 1.1
Which of the following describes a qualitative variable?
a) The height of a basketball player
b) The letter grade obtained by a COMM 215 student
c) The number of students enrolled at JMSB
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
QUESTION 1.2
Which of the following is true?
a) Quantitative variables can be nominal or ordinal
b) Nominal variables can be ranked from least to greatest
c) Qualitative variables cannot contain numbers
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
QUESTION 1.3
Which of the following variables are ordinal?
a) Starbucks coffee cup sizes
b) A student’s GPA
c) The colors available on a new car model
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
QUESTION 1.4
A gym offers four membership plans: Basic (valued at
$100/year), Deluxe ($200/year), Premium ($250/year),
and Gold ($300/year). Which of the following classes
correctly describes this variable?
a) Quantitative, ratio
b) Quantitative, interval
c) Qualitative, nominal
d) Qualitative, ordinal
e) None of the above
QUESTION 1.5
American ZIP codes are usually expressed as a five-
digit sequence. ZIP codes are best described by which
of the following variable classes?
a) Qualitative, ordinal
b) Quantitative, interval
c) Quantitative, ratio
d) Qualitative, nominal
e) None of the above
QUESTION 1.6
In which of the following scenarios would we be most
likely to see time series data?
i. When comparing the pass rates between last
semester’s COMM 215 sections
ii. When studying enrollment across all JMSB
majors
iii. When computing the depreciation of car’s value

a) i only
b) ii only
c) iii only
d) i and ii
e) i, ii, and iii
QUESTION 1.7
A business professor divides her class by major, and
then randomly selects one student from each
concentration to give a short presentation. The
sampling design here describes:
a) Stratified sampling
b) Cluster sampling
c) Unjust random sampling
d) Systematic sampling
e) None of the above
QUESTION 1.8
A small firm reports the annual salaries of its
employees in the following frequency distribution:

Salary (in $) Frequency


[0, 30,000] 5
(30,000, 60,000] 7
(60,000, 90,000] 14
(90,000, 120,000] 4

Which of the following correctly expresses the


cumulative relative frequency for the (60,000, 90,000]
bracket?
a) 0.26
b) 26
c) 0.14
d) 0.46
e) None of the above
QUESTION 1.9
You are studying the GPAs of a sample of 100 JMSB
students. You find that no students have a GPA below
2.0, while only 7 have a GPA below 3.0, and 83 have a
GPA below 4.0. Which of the following is false?
i. 10 students have a GPA of 4.0 and above
ii. 83% of students have a GPA between 3.0 and 4.0
iii. 93% of students have a GPA of 3.0 and above

a) i only
b) iii only
c) i and ii
d) i and iii
e) i, ii, and iii
QUESTION 1.10
A retailer constructs a stem-and-leaf plot for the
amount of time (in seconds) required to process a
credit card transaction. The plot is displayed below and
contains 20 observations:

0 9
1 2257
2 3689
3 12445667779

Given that the stem unit is 1 and the leaf unit is 0.1,
what is the value of the 12th observation?
a) 3.44
b) 34
c) 0.4
d) 4
e) None of the above
QUESTION 1.11
A business analyst at Honda has been tasked with
providing a data visualization depicting the proportion
of sales attributed to each car model sold this year.
Which of the following graphical methods is least
appropriate?
a) Pie chart
b) Bar chart
c) Histogram
d) Pareto chart
e) None of the above
QUESTION 1.12
Consider the Pareto chart below, which describes the
frequency and proportion of Tactica Inc. salespeople by
division (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, and Echo):

Fill in the blanks: Among the ________ salespeople at


Tactica Inc., about ________ work in the Delta division.
a) 19; 25%
b) 19; 90%
c) 8; 25%
d) 8; 90%
e) None of the above
SUPP. QUESTION 1.13
For a research project, you are studying the GPAs of
BComm students at Concordia University. For
economic reasons, you grouped students into cohorts
of 100 and chose two cohorts at random to be part of
your sample. Which of the following describes the
sampling technique used?
a) Grouped sampling
b) Cluster sampling
c) Stratified random sampling
d) Simple random sampling
e) None of the above
SUPP. QUESTION 1.14
Which of the following statements are true concerning
quantitative interval variables?
i. On the interval scale, zero represents no
magnitude
ii. Ratios of interval variables are not meaningful
iii. Temperature (in degrees Celsius) describes an
interval variable

a) i only
b) ii only
c) i and ii
d) ii and iii
e) i, ii, and iii
SUPP. QUESTION 1.15
Consider a frequency distribution with 8 entries, each
of which is expressed as a value between 0 and 1.
Which of the following distributions might be described
here?
i. Relative frequency distribution
ii. Cumulative relative frequency distribution
iii. Cumulative frequency distribution

a) i only
b) ii only
c) iii only
d) i and ii
e) ii and iii

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