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This document contains 20 multiple choice questions and 20 true/false questions assessing understanding of key concepts in descriptive statistics including: types of variables, measures of central tendency and variability, histograms, boxplots, scatterplots, and interpreting graphical displays of data. The questions cover topics such as identifying variable types, interpreting and comparing measures of central tendency and variability, constructing and interpreting histograms, boxplots, scatterplots, and statements about their properties.

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This document contains 20 multiple choice questions and 20 true/false questions assessing understanding of key concepts in descriptive statistics including: types of variables, measures of central tendency and variability, histograms, boxplots, scatterplots, and interpreting graphical displays of data. The questions cover topics such as identifying variable types, interpreting and comparing measures of central tendency and variability, constructing and interpreting histograms, boxplots, scatterplots, and statements about their properties.

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Due Date: 10/31

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The classification of student major (accounting, economics, management, marketing, other) is an


example of a(n)
a. Nominal random variable.
b. Interval random variable.
c. Continuous random variable.
d. Parameter.

2. The classification of student class designation (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) is an


example of a(n)
a. Nominal random variable.
b. Interval random variable.
c. Ordinal random variable.
d. A parameter.

3. A researcher wishes to estimate the textbook costs of first-year students at Ferris State University.
To do so, he recorded the textbook cost of 200 first-year students and found that their average
textbook cost was $275 per semester. The variable of interest to the researcher is
a. Textbook cost.
b. Class rank.
c. Number of students.
d. Name of university.
4. All calculations are permitted on what type of data?
a. Interval data
b. Nominal data
c. Ordinal data
d. All of these choices are true.

5. Values must represent ordered rankings for what type of data?


a. Interval data
b. Nominal data
c. Ordinal data
d. None of these choices.
6. Which of the following situations is best suited for a pie chart?
a. The number of dollars spent this year on each type of legal gambling.
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.

7. Which of the following statements about histograms is false?


a. The intervals of a histogram do not overlap.
b. Every observation is assigned to one and only one class in a histogram.
c. The intervals of a histogram are equally wide.
d. None of these choices.
8. A modal class in a histogram is the class that includes
a. the largest number of observations.
b. the smallest number of observations.
c. the largest observation in the data set.
d. the smallest observation in the data set.

9. Which measure of central location is meaningful when the data are ordinal?
a. The mean
b. The median
c. The mode
d. All of these choices are meaningful for ordinal data.

10. Which of the following statements about the mean is not always correct?
a. The sum of the deviations from the mean is zero.
b. Half of the observations are on either side of the mean.
c. The mean is a measure of the central location.
d. The value of the mean times the number of observations equals the sum of all
observations.

11. Which of the following statements is true for the following observations: 7, 5, 6, 4, 7, 8, and 12?
a. The mean, median and mode are all equal.
b. Only the mean and median are equal.
c. Only the mean and mode are equal
d. Only the median and mode are equal.

12. In a histogram, the proportion of the total area which must be to the left of the median is:
a. exactly 0.50.
b. less than 0.50 if the distribution is negatively skewed.
c. more than 0.50 if the distribution is positively skewed.
d. unknown.

13. Which measure of central location can be used for both interval and nominal variables?
a. The mean
b. The median
c. The mode
d. All of these choices are true.
14. Which of these measures of central location is not sensitive to extreme values?
a. The mean
b. The median
c. The mode
d. All of these choices are true.

15. In a positively skewed distribution:


a. the median equals the mean.
b. the median is less than the mean.
c. the median is larger than the mean.
d. the mean can be larger or smaller than the median.
16. The relationship between two interval variables is graphically displayed by a
a. scatter diagram
b. histogram
c. bar chart
d. pie chart

17. How do you determine whether two interval variables have a positive linear relationship?
a. Most of the points fall close to a straight line with positive slope.
b. As the X variable increases, the Y variable increases in a linear way.
c. The scatter diagram shows a linear pattern that is going uphill.
d. All of these choices are true.

18. If the data in a scatter diagram is scattered completely at random, what do you conclude?
a. There is no linear relationship between X and Y.
b. There is a strong linear relationship between X and Y.
c. There is a strong linear relationship between X and Y that is described by a horizontal (flat)
line.
d. None of these choices.

19. Which of the following summary measures cannot be easily approximated from a box plot?
a. The range
b. The interquartile range
c. The second quartile
d. The standard deviation

20. The interquartile range is the difference between the:


a. largest and smallest numbers in the data set.
b. 25th percentile and the 75th percentile.
c. median and the mean.
d. None of these choices.

TRUE/FALSE

1. A bar chart is used to represent interval data.

2. From a pie chart you are able to find the frequency for each category.

3. Bar and pie charts are graphical techniques for nominal data. The former focus the attention on
the frequency of the occurrences of each category, and the later emphasizes the proportion of
occurrences of each category.

4. A relative frequency distribution lists the categories and their counts.

5. A frequency distribution lists the categories and the proportion with which each occurs.

6. The intervals (classes) in a histogram do not overlap.


7. The intervals (classes) in a histogram are equally wide.

8. In a histogram, each observation is assigned to one or more classes.

9. A relative frequency distribution describes the proportion of data values that fall within each
category.

10. The mean is affected by extreme values but the median is not.

11. The median is a measure of variability.

12. Boxplots are not appropriate to identify outliers.

13. The scatter diagram below depicts data with a negative linear relationship.

14. The 5-number summary consists of the smallest observation, the first quartile, the median, the
third quartile, and the largest observation

15. In symmetric data, the value for Q2 is always halfway between Q1 and Q3.

16. A box plot is a graphical representation of the 5-number summary.

17. The line drawn within the box of a box plot always represents the median.

18. The difference between the largest and smallest observations in an ordered data set is called the
range.

19. The coefficient of variation is a measure of variability.

20. The coefficient of variation allows us to compare two sets of data based on different measurement
units.

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