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Unit 2 - MC Review Practice

Tips
Multiple Choice (Answer Key Below)

Representing Two Categorical Variables

1. The following segmented bar chart shows the number of flights that were either on time or
delayed at three different airports on one day.
Which of the following statements is supported by the bar chart?

2. The following bar chart displays the relative frequency of responses of students, by grade level,
when asked, “Do you volunteer in a community-service activity?”
Which of the following statements is not supported by the bar chart?

3. The following table shows the data collected from students in grades 3 and 4 in an elementary
school about their favorite types of pets.
Cats Dogs Birds Other Total

Grade 25 60 5 15 105
3
Grade 35 50 15 10 110
4
Total 60 110 20 25 215
Which of the following statements is supported by the table?
1. C 2. D 3. A

Statistics for Two Categorical Variables

4. The following data were collected from a random sample of people, who identified their favorite
type of juice. The results are shown in the following two-way table.
Orang Grap Cranberr Appl Tota
e e y e l
Adults 600 500 50 150 1,30
0
Childre 400 100 50 150 700
n
Total 1,000 600 100 300 2,00
0
What proportion of the children identified orange as their favorite type of juice?
5. The following data were collected from a random sample of people on their favorite types of
leisure activities and their age. The results are shown in the two-way table below.
Readin Exercis Playin Watchin Tot
g e g g al
Video Televisio
Game n
s
0 to 6 10 50 100 140 300
years
7 to 200 300 200 200 900
12
years
13 to 600 500 100 100 1,3
18 00
years
19 500 250 50 200 1,0
years 00
or
great
er
Total 1,310 1,100 450 640 3,5
00
What proportion of the people aged 7 to 18 years gave watching television as their favorite type of
leisure activity?

7. A study was conducted on three types of home siding and the type of damage done to the siding
by woodpeckers. Each hole made by a woodpecker was classified as either drumming (territorial
signaling), foresting (looking for food), or nesting. The following bar chart shows the relative
frequency of the holes for each type of siding.

Which of the following statements is supported by the bar chart?

7. A penalty kick in soccer involves two players from different teams, the shooter and the goalie.
During the penalty kick the shooter will try to score a goal by kicking a soccer ball to the left or
right of the goal area. To prevent the shooter from scoring a goal, the goalie will move to the left or
right of the goal area. The following table summarizes the directions taken by the shooter and the
goalie for 372 penalty kicks.
Shooter

Kick Left Kick Right Total

Goalie Move Left 80 132 212

Move Right 85 75 160

Total 165 207 372

Which of the following indicates an association between the shooter's choice of direction and the
goalie’s choice of direction?
 8. The following table shows data that were collected from a random sample of people, who
indicated their age and their favorite sporting event to watch on television.

Based on the results above, what proportion of the randomly sampled people are over age 12
years?

9 A split ticket is a voting pattern in which a voter casts votes for candidates from more than
one political party. In a recent study, 1,000 men and women were asked whether they voted
a split ticket in the last election. The totals are shown in the following table.
 Men Women Total

Yes, split ticket

a b 600

No, did not split ticket

c d 400

Total 800 200 1,000

What value of a would indicate no association between gender and voting pattern for the
people in the sample?

4. B 5. A 6. C 7. E 8. D 9. C

Representing the Relationship Between Two Quantitative Variables

10. A botanist found a correlation between the length of an aspen leaf and its surface area to be
0.94. Why does the correlation value of 0.94 not necessarily indicate that a linear model is the
most appropriate model for the relationship between length of an aspen leaf and its surface area?
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12. A restaurant manager collected data on the number of customers in a party in the restaurant and
the time elapsed until the party left the restaurant. The manager computed a correlation of 0.78
between the two variables. What information does the correlation provide about the relationship
between the number of customers in a party at the restaurant and the time elapsed until the party
left the restaurant?
13. For a random sample of 20 professional athletes, there is a strong, linear relationship between
the number of hours they exercise per week and their resting heart rate. For the athletes in the
sample, those who exercise more hours per week tend to have lower resting heart rates than those
who exercise less. Which of the following is a reasonable value for the correlation between the
number of hours athletes exercise per week and their resting heart rate?

14. A researcher in Alaska measured the age (in months) and the weight (in pounds) of a random
sample of adolescent moose. When the least-squares regression analysis was performed, the
correlation was 0.59. Which of the following is the correct way to label the correlation?
15. A tennis ball was thrown in the air. The height of the ball from the ground was recorded every
millisecond from the time the ball was thrown until it reached the height from which it was thrown.
The correlation between the time and height was computed to be 0. What does this correlation
suggest about the relationship between the time and height?

10. E 11. E 12. C 13. D 14. C 15. B

Linear Regression Models

16.A family would like to build a linear regression equation to predict the amount of grain
harvested per acre of land on their farm. They subdivide their land into several smaller plots of
land for testing and would like to select an explanatory variable they can control. Which of the
following is an appropriate explanatory variable that the family could use to create a linear
regression equation?

17. For a specific species of fish in a pond, a wildlife biologist wants to build a regression equation
to predict the weight of a fish based on its length. The biologist collects a random sample of this
species of fish and finds that the lengths vary from 0.75 to 1.35 inches. The biologist uses the data
from the sample to create a single linear regression model. Would it be appropriate to use this
model to predict the weight of a fish of this species that is 3 inches long?
18. The least-squares regression line summarizes the relationship between
velocity, in feet per second, and depth, in feet, in measurements taken for a certain river, where x
represents velocity and y represents the depth of the river. What is the predicted value of y, in feet,
when x=5?

16. E 17. D 18. D

Residuals
19. A researcher collected data on the age, in years, and the growth of sea turtles. The following
graph is a residual plot of the regression of growth versus age.

Does the residual plot support the appropriateness of a linear model?

20. The following is a residual plot for a linear regression of y versus x.
.

What is indicated by the plot?

21. An engineer believes that there is a linear relationship between the thickness of an air filter
and the amount of particulate matter that gets through the filter; that is, less pollution should get
through thicker filters. The engineer tests many filters of different thickness and fits a linear
model. If a linear model is appropriate, what should be apparent in the residual plot?

19. E 20. B 21. D

Least Squares Regression

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22. E 23. A 24. B 25. B 26. B 27. E

Analyzing Departures from Linearity

28. The following scatterplot shows two variables, x and y, along with a least-squares model.

Which of the following is a high leverage point with respect to the regression?

29.
30. In a study to determine whether miles driven is a good predictor of trade-in value, 11 cars of
the same age, make, model, and condition were randomly selected. The following scatterplot
shows trade-in value and mileage for those cars. Five of the points are labeled A, B, C, D, and E,
respectively.

Which of the five labeled points is the most influential with respect to a regression of trade-in value
versus miles driven?
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28. E 29. D 30. E 31. E 32. C 33. C