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Variables X and Y have the strongest correlation in which scatter plot?

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a. Figure A.

b. They are the same.

c. Figure B.

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If samples are from a normal distribution with μ = 100 and σ = 10 we expect
Select one:

a. about 68 percent of the data within 90 to 110.

b. almost all the data within 80 to 120.
c. about 95 percent of the data within 70 to 130.
d. about half the data to exceed 75.

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Which of the following statements is likely to be true?
Select one:
a. For income, the sum of squared deviations about the mean is negative about half the time.
b. For personal incomes in California, outliers in either tail would be equally likely.
c. The median personal income of California taxpayers would probably be near the mean.

d. The interquartile range offers a measure of income inequality among California residents.
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The quartiles of a distribution are most clearly revealed in which display?
Select one:
a. Boxplot.

b. Scatter plot.
c. Dotplot.
d. Histogram.

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Three randomly-chosen Colorado students were asked how many times they went rock climbing last
month. Their replies were 5, 6, 7. The coefficient of variation is
Select one:

a. 35.7%
b. 13.6%
c. 16.7%
d. 20.0%

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Which Excel function would be least useful to calculate the quartiles for a column of data?
Select one:
a. = STANDARDIZE
b. = PERCENTILE
c. = QUARTILE

d. = RANK

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The following table is the frequency distribution of parking fees for a day:

The mean parking fee is

Select one:
a. $6.95
b. $7.25
c. $7.00

d. $7.07

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The median of 600, 800, 1000, 1200 is
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a. 900.
b. 1000.
c. 950.
d. 800.

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Twelve randomly-chosen students were asked how many times they had missed class during a certain
semester, with this result: 2, 1, 5, 1, 1, 3, 4, 3, 1, 1, 5, 18. For this sample, the geometric mean is
Select one:
a. 1.545

b. 2.376
c. 2.158
d. 3.017

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The Empirical Rule says that
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a. about 32 percent of the data are beyond one standard deviation from the mean.
b. almost all outliers are within three standard deviations of the mean.
c. in most business data sets we expect the mean and median to be similar.
d. most business data sets are normally distributed if the samples are random.

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When using the Chebyshev's theorem, the minimum percentage of sample observations that will fall within
2 standard deviations of the mean will be __________ the percentage within 2 standard deviations if a
normal distribution is assumed (Empirical Rule).
Select one:
a. greater than

b. smaller than
c. the same as

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Which Excel function would be most useful to calculate z = (x-μ)/σ for a column of data?
Select one:
a. = STANDARDIZE
b. = STDEVP
c. = AVERAGE

d. = NORMDIST

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One disadvantage of the range is that
Select one:

a. it does not exist for some data sets.

b. it is undefined if any X values are 0 or negative.
c. it is expressed in different units than the mean.
d. only extreme values are used in its calculation.

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Which of the following statements is likely to apply to the incomes of 50 randomly-chosen taxpayers in
California?
Select one:
a. The sum of squared deviations about the mean would be negative.

b. The median income would probably be near the mean.

c. The midhinge would be a robust measure of central tendency.
d. Outliers in either tail would be equally likely.

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Three randomly chosen Michigan students were asked how many round trips they made to Canada last
year. Their replies were 3, 4, 5. The geometric mean is
Select one:
a. 3.877

b. 3.915
c. 4.000
d. 4.422

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Estimate the mean exam score for the 50 students in Prof. Axolotl's class.

Select one:
a. 63.5
b. 59.2

c. 62.0
d. 64.1

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In Tokyo, construction workers earn an average of ×420,000 (yen) per month with a standard deviation of
×20,000, while in Hamburg, Germany, construction workers earn an average of €3,200 (euros) per month
with a standard deviation of €57. Who is earning relatively more, a worker making ×460,000 per month in
Tokyo or one earning €3,300 per month in Hamburg?
Select one:

a. The workers are the same in relative terms.

b. The Tokyo worker is relatively better off.
c. The Hamburg worker is relatively better off.

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Estimating the mean from grouped data will tend to be most accurate when
Select one:

a. the standard deviation is large relative to the mean.

b. observations are distributed uniformly within classes.
c. there are few classes with wide class limits.
d. the sample is not very large and bins are wide.

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Find the sample correlation coefficient for the following data.

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a. .9822
b. .8911

c. .9132
d. .9556

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Which is not true of the Empirical Rule?
Select one:

a. It applies to any distribution.

b. It predicts more observations within μ ± kσ than Chebyshev's Theorem.
c. It assumes that the distribution of data follows a bell shaped, normal curve.
d. It can be applied to fewer distributions than Chebyshev's theorem.

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The ______________ shows the relationship between two variables.
Select one:
a. bar chart
b. box plot
c. histogram

d. scatter plot

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Given a sample of three items (X = 4, 6, 5) which statement is incorrect?
Select one:
a. The coefficient of variation is 20 percent.
b. The quartiles are useless.
c. The standard deviation is 1.

d. The geometric mean is 5.2.

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Which statement is true?
Select one:
a. If we sample a normal population the sample skewness coefficient is exactly 0.
b. Outliers distort the mean but not the standard deviation.
c. Business and economic data are rarely skewed to the right.

d. With nominal data we can find the mode.

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Chebychev's Theorem
Select one:

a. applies to all samples.

b. is based on Sturges' Rule for data classification.
c. applies only to samples from a normal population.
d. gives a narrower range of predictions than the Empirical Rule.

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A reporter for the campus paper asked five randomly chosen students how many occupants,
including the driver, ride to school in their cars. The responses were 1, 1, 1, 1, 6. The
coefficient of variation is:
Select one:

a. 112%
b. 100%
c. 250%
d. 25%

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The twenty-fifth percentile for waiting time in a doctor's office is 19 minutes. The seventy-fifth
percentile is 31 minutes. The interquartile range is
Select one:
a. 22 minutes.
b. 16 minutes.
c. impossible to determine without knowing n.

d. 12 minutes.
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A survey of salary increases received during a recent year by 44 working MBA students is
shown. Find the approximate mean percent raise.

Select one:

a. 6.74.
b. 5.90.
c. 6.56.
d. 6.39.

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Twelve randomly-chosen students were asked how many times they had missed class
during a certain semester, with this result: 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 5, 9, 1, 2, 3, 3, 10. The median is
Select one:
a. 3.0

b. 2.5
c. 7.0
d. 3.5

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Which is not a measure of dispersion?
Select one:
a. Standard deviation.
b. Interquartile range.

c. Midhinge.
d. Mean absolute deviation (MAD).

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The position of the median is
Select one:

a. (n + 1)/2 in any sample.

b. n/2 if n is even.
c. n/2 if n is odd.
d. n/2 in any sample.

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Which is a correct statement concerning the median?
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a. The sum of the deviations around the median is zero.

b. The median is halfway between Q1 and Q3 on a boxplot.
c. In a left-skewed distribution, we expect that the median will exceed the mean.
d. The median is an observed data value in any data set.

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In a positively skewed distribution, the percentage of observations which fall below the
median is
Select one:

a. can't tell without knowing n.

b. about 50 percent.
c. more than 50 percent.
d. less than 50 percent.

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Heights of male students in a certain statistics class range from Xmin = 61 to Xmax = 79.
Applying the Empirical Rule, a reasonable estimate of σ would be
Select one:

a. 3.00
b. 3.25
c. 2.75
d. 3.50

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The mode is least appropriate for
Select one:

a. categorical data.
b. discrete data.
c. continuous data.
d. Lickert scale data.

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Patient survival times after a certain type of surgery have a very right-skewed distribution
due to a few high outliers. Consequently, which statement is most likely to be correct?
Select one:
a. Mean > Midrange.
b. Mean < Median.
c. Median > Midrange.

d. Mean > Trimmed Mean.

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Sturges' Rule would be helpful in constructing which display?
Select one:
a. Boxplot.

b. Histogram.
c. Pareto chart.
d. Dotplot.

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Which statement is false?
Select one:
a. The mean from a frequency tabulation may differ from the mean from raw data.
b. The skewness coefficient is zero in a sample from any normal distribution.
c. The standard deviation is in the same units as the mean (e.g., kilograms).
d. The coefficient of variation cannot be used when the mean is zero.

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Here are statistics on order sizes of Megalith Construction Supply's shipments of two kinds
of construction materials last year.

Which order sizes have greater variability?

Select one:
a. They are the same.

b. Rivets.
c. Cannot be determined without knowing n.
d. Girders.

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Which is not true of an outlier?
Select one:
a. It is an anomaly that may tell the researcher something.
b. It is best discarded to get a better mean.
c. It is suggestive of an error in recording the data.

d. It is likely to be from a different population.

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Exam scores in a small class were 0, 50, 50, 70, 70, 80, 90, 90, 100, 100. For this data set,
which statement is incorrect concerning central tendency?
Select one:
a. The geometric mean is useless.
b. The mode is not helpful.

c. The median is 70.

d. The mean is 70.

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