Chapter 1 Exercises

1- Number of bicycles sold in one year by a large sporting goods store is an example of what
type of data?
A) Qualitative B) Quantitative

2- Colors of baseball caps in a store is an example of what type of data?

A) Qualitative B) Quantitative

3- Time to cut a lawn is an example of what type of data?

A) Qualitative B) Quantitative

4- Classification of children in a day-care center (infant, toddler, preschool) is an example of

what type of data?
A) Qualitative B) Quantitative

5- Weights of fish caught in the red sea is an example of what type of data?
A) Qualitative B) Quantitative

6- Marital status of faculty members in a large university is an example of what type of data?
A) Qualitative B) Quantitative

7- Number of doughnuts sold each day by a doughnuts store is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

8- Water temperatures of six swimming pools in Jeddah on a given day are an example of what
type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

9- Weights of cats in a pet shelter is an example of what type of data?

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

10- Lifetime (in hours) of 12 flashlight batteries is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

11- Number of cheeseburgers sold each day by a hamburger stand on a college campus is an
example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

12- Number of DVDs rented each day by a video store is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

13- Capacity (in gallons) of six dams in Saudi Arabia is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal
14- Ages of people working in a large factory is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

15- Number of cups of coffee served at a restaurant is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

16- The time it takes a student to drive to school is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

17- Nationality of people who are living in Saudi Arabia is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

18- Rankings of tennis players is an example of what type of data?

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

19- Weights of air conditioners is an example of what type of data?

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

20- Temperatures inside 9 refrigerators is an example of what type of data?

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

21- Ratings of eight local plays (poor, fair, good, excellent) is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

22- Time required for mechanics to do a tune-up is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

23- Ages of students in a classroom is an example of what type of data?

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

24- Levels of services is an example of what type of data?

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

25- Number of bags is an example of what type of data?

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

26- Classification of automobiles as subcompact, compact, standard, and luxury is an example of

what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

27- The number of absences per year that a worker has is an example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

28- Data that can be classified according to color are example of what type of data?
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal
29- The time needed for a student to reach KAU from his home is …………
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

30- Students' registration numbers (Identification numbers) are example of …………

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

31- Temperature in Saudi Arabia is a (an) …………

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

32- Salaries of the staff in King Abdulaziz University are a (an) ………… variable.
A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

33- Lifetime of an electronic device is a (an) ………… variable.

A) Discrete B) Continuous C) Ordinal D) Nominal

34- A researcher divided subjects into two groups according to gender and then selected
members randomly from each group for his sample. What sampling method was the researcher
using?
A) Cluster B) Random C) Systematic D) Stratified

35- In a large school district, all teachers from two buildings are interviewed to determine
whether they believe the students have less homework to do now than in previous years.
A) Random B) Systematic C) Stratified D) Cluster

36- Every seventh customer entering a shopping mall is asked to select her or his favorite store.
A) Random B) Systematic C) Stratified D) Cluster

37- Nursing supervisors are selected using random numbers in order to determine annual
salaries.
A) Random B) Systematic C) Stratified D) Cluster

38- Every 100th hamburger manufactured is checked to determine its fat content.
A) Random B) Systematic C) Stratified D) Cluster

39- Mail carriers of a large city are divided into four groups according to gender (male or
female) and according to whether they walk or ride on their routes. Then 10 are selected from
each group and interviewed to determine whether they have been bitten by a dog in the last year.
A) Random B) Systematic C) Stratified D) Cluster

40- An auto analyst is conducting a satisfaction survey, sampling from a list of 10,000 new car
buyers. The list includes 2,500 Ford buyers, 2,500 GM buyers, 2,500 Honda buyers, and 2,500
Toyota buyers. The analyst selects a sample of 400 car buyers, by randomly sampling 100 buyers
from each brand.
A) Random B) Systematic C) Stratified D) Cluster
41- A high school counselor uses a computer to generate 50 random numbers and then picks
students whose names correspond to the numbers. This is an example of ……….. sampling
A) random B) cluster C) stratified D) systematic

42- Listing discharged hotel customers, numbering the customers and using random number
table to obtain sample is an example of ………… sampling
A) random B) cluster C) stratified D) systematic

Chapter 2 Exercises
1- Find the class boundaries, midpoints, and widths for each class.
Class limit Class boundaries Midpoint Class width
a 10 -15
b 53 - 71

2- The number of students enrolled at a local college for each year during the last 5 years is
example of which graph or chart?
A) Bar Chart B) Time series graph C) Pie graph

3- Data such as blood types (A, B, AB, O) can be organized into a(n) …… frequency
distribution.
A) grouped frequency distribution B) frequency polygon
C) ungrouped frequency distribution D) categorical frequency distribution

4- Data collected over a period of time can be graphed using a(n) …….. graph.
A) histogram B) frequency polygon
C) cumulative frequency graph D) time series graph

Chapter 3 Exercises
1- For a recent year, the worth (in billions of dollars) of a sample of the 12 wealthiest people
under the age of 65 is shown:
14, 12, 48, 20, 18, 18, 12.6, 10.4, 7.3, 5.3, 4.5,4
a- Find the mean.
b- Find the mode.
c- Find the median.

2- The worth of a sample of 12 of the wealthiest people age 65 and over is shown:
41.0, 13.7, 10.0, 18.0, 11.3, 7.6, 7, 18, 20, 60, 7, 8.5
a- Find the mean.
b- Find the mode.
c- Find the median.
3- Shown here are the numbers of stories in the 12 tallest buildings in St. Paul, Minnesota.
32, 36, 46, 20, 32, 18, 16, 34, 26, 27, 26, 41
and shown here are the numbers of stories in the12 tallest buildings in Chicago, Illinois.
100, 100, 83, 60, 64, 65, 66, 74, 60, 67, 57, 41
Which data set is more variable?

4- The average age of the accountants at Three Rivers Corp. is 25 years, with a standard
deviation of 5 years; the average salary of the accountants is $31000 with a standard deviation of
$4000.
Compare the variations of age and income.

5- Which score indicates the highest relative position?

a- A score of 3.2 on a test with mean 4.6 and standard deviation 1.5.
b- A score of 55 on a test with mean 65 and standard deviation 10.
c- A score of 630 on a test with mean 800 and standard deviation 200.
d- A score of 43 on a test with mean 50 and standard deviation 5.

6- Check each data set for outliers.

a- 16, 18, 22, 19, 3, 21, 17, 20
b- 321, 343, 350, 327, 200

7- Identify the five-number summary and find the interquartile range for the following data
values:
19, 16, 48, 22, 7

8- The following data represent the number of listeners (in thousands) of 15 radio stations in the
6:00 to 9:00 A.M. time slot in Pittsburgh.
229, 182, 129, 112, 122, 93, 97, 114, 95, 114, 60, 89,75, 70, 68
Find each of these.
a- Mean
b- Median
c- Mode
d- Range
e- Variance
f- Standard deviation

9- What is the value of the mode when all values in the data set are different?
A) 0 B) 1
C) There is no mode. D) It cannot be determined.

10- When data are categorized as, for example, places of residence (rural, suburban, urban), the
most appropriate measure of central tendency is the
A) Mean B) Median C) Mode D) Range

11- Which is not part of the five-number summary?

A) 𝑸𝟏 and 𝑸𝟑 B) The mean C) The median D) 𝑴𝒊𝒏 and 𝑴𝒂𝒙
12- A statistic that tells the number of standard deviations a data value is above or below the
mean is called
A) a quartile B) a percentile
C) a coefficient of variation D) a z score
 Chapter 1
1 B
2 A
3 B
4 A
5 B
6 A
7 A
8 B
9 B
10 B
11 A
12 A
13 B
14 B
15 A
16 B
17 D
18 C
19 B
20 B
21 C
22 B
23 B
24 C
25 A
26 C
27 A
28 D
29 B
30 D
31 B
32 B
33 B
34 D
35 D
36 B
37 A
38 B
39 C
40 C
41 A
42 A
Chapter 2
a 9.5 – 15.5, 12.5, 6
1
b 52.5-71.5, 62, 19
2 B
3 D
4 D
Chapter 3
a 14.51
1 b 18
c 12.3
a 18.51
2 b 7, 18
c 12.5
30.92%, 24.76%, The building in
3 St. Paul is more variable than the
building in Chicago Illinois.
20%, 12.9%, age is more variable
4
than salary.
a -0.93
b -1
5
c -0.85 (highest relative position)
d -1.4
a 3
6
b No outliers
z 7
b 11.5
7 c 19
d 35
e 48
a 109.93
b 97
8
c 114
d 169
 e 2007.07
f 44.8
9 C
10 C
11 B
12 D