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Midterm Practice Questions

The document contains practice questions for a midterm exam in statistics for business, covering topics such as descriptive and inferential statistics, types of variables, graph analysis, and calculations of mean, median, mode, and standard deviation. It includes specific data sets for analysis, pie graph construction, and comparisons of variations in data. Additionally, it addresses percentile calculations and the impact of outliers on statistical measures.

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Midterm Practice Questions

The document contains practice questions for a midterm exam in statistics for business, covering topics such as descriptive and inferential statistics, types of variables, graph analysis, and calculations of mean, median, mode, and standard deviation. It includes specific data sets for analysis, pie graph construction, and comparisons of variations in data. Additionally, it addresses percentile calculations and the impact of outliers on statistical measures.

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DBA 205 Statistic for Business Practice Questions for Midterm

Q1)
 A …………….. consists of all subjects (human or otherwise) that are being studied.
 A ……………… is a group of subjects selected from a larger data set.
 …………………. statistics consists of the collection, organization, summarization, and presentation of data
from population to sample.
 ………………… statistics consists of data from samples to populations, performing estimations and
hypothesis tests and making predictions.
 ………………….. variables are variables that have distinct categories according to some characteristic
 …………………. variables can be counted or measured.
 ………………….. variables can assume an infinite number of values between any two specific values. They
are obtained by measuring.
 In an …………………….. study, the researcher merely observes what is happening or what has happened
in the past and tries to draw conclusions based on these observations.
 The 25th percintile (P25) also equal ...............
 If Z-score is negative it means the given value …………………. than mean of data set.
 State the types of measurement
Variable Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio Level
Hair Color
Letter Grade
Temperature of Town
Weight of Students
Stat Test Scores
The size of the Pizza
The color of cars

 State the type of relationship between variables.


 What is the another name of ogive graphs
a) Histogram
b) Frequency Polygon
c) Cumulative Frequency Graph
d) Pie graph

 Describe the shape of the graph

 Which one true according to shape of the graph


a) Mean < Mode < Median
b) Mode < Mean < Median
c) Mean < Median < Mode
d) Mode < Median < Mean
Q2) Construct and analyze a pie graph for calls received to police for last year. Compare the percentage of
calls for a time period in a day.

Time Period in a Day Number of Calls


Day 2594
Evening 2800
Night 2436
Q3) The data shows the height of 9 roller coasters. Find mean……, mode…….., median……., std.dev……..,
Range……., Q1………., Q3………., IQR………..
50, 70, 90, 60, 80, 40, 60, 30, 65
Q4) The data shows age of 7 president of a country. Find mean……, mode…….., median…….,
std.dev…….., Range……., Q1………., Q3………., IQR………..
45, 50, 55, 35, 40, 50, 60
Q5) Compare the variation of datas on Q3 and Q4, by the coefficient of variation.

Q6) A student grades from the courses and their credits shown below. Find the student GPA.

Course Credits Grade


Math 6 A(4 points)
Chemistry 4 C(2 points)
Biology 5 B(3 points)
Physics 3 D(1 points)
Q7) The data represent the number of miles that 20 runners ran during one week. Find mean……,
modalclass………….., median……., std.dev…….
Runner Miles Frequency f
4,5 – 9,5 1
9,5 – 14,5 2
14,5 – 19,5 3
19,5 – 24,5 5
24,5 – 29,5 4
29,5 – 34,5 3
34,5 – 39,5 2
Q8) The mean age of males is 36 and std. dev. is 3. The mean age of women is 44 and std. dev. is 4 in a
city. Compare the relative positions of male and female ages of 54.
Q9) In a college there are 800 students. The study of their heights is shown in the box plot below. If the
10th percentile of heights is 163 cm, how many students' heights are less than 163 cm or more than 175
cm. Find Min……., Max…….., Q1……., Q3………, Q2…….., Range………., IQR………..
Q10) The number of sales of coffee in a shop in 12 days is; 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14.
Which one is the box plot of these sales values?
Q11) A researcher is studying at a college in A political scientist is studying voters in California. It is
California. She takes a sample of 400 appropriate to him to use a mean to describe
students from 10 colleges. The average age
of all college students in California is a) the gender of voters b) country residence of voters
a) statistic b) median
c) the party affiliations d) the age of a typical voter
c) parameter d) population

Half of the observations in a data set are Which one correctly ranks the measures in order from
greater than the least affected by outliers to most affected by outliers

a) mean b) mode a) mean, median, range b) range, median, mean

c) median d) std. dev. c) median, mean, range d) median, range, mean


Q12) In a college there are 800 students. The study about their heights is shown in the following box
plot below if the 85 percentile of the heights is 179 cm, how many of the students' heights are less than
164 cm or more than 179cm?

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