Week 4 Quiz for Joyce Tinsman True/False (Justify answer for possible partial credit . ) 1.

A population is an entire collection of measurements. True, a sample is a subsection of a population. 2. The mean and the median is always the same. False, if the distribution is not normally distributed the mean and median are not the same. 3. The standard deviation is the positive square root of the variance. True, also the variance is the standard deviation squared. 4. The binomial distribution is a continuous distribution. True 5. The normal distribution is a continuous distribution. False, it is a discrete distribution. 6. The Standard Normal Distribution has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. True Multiple Choice. Choose the one or more best responses for each question. 1. What is true about the Empirical Rule? a. The mean plus/minus 1 standard deviation contains less than 50% of the data. False b. Nearly all of the data should be between plus/minus 3 standard deviations of the mean. True c. It's not possible for data to exist outside of 3 standard deviations of the mean. False d. all of the above e. none of the above 2. What is true about Normal Distributions? a. The normal distribution has parameters of the mean and the standard deviation. True b. The normal distribution is symmetric about the mean. True c. The normal distribution is bell-shaped. True d. all of the above True e. none of the above