Marks: _______ Quiz: 1 (30 Marks)

1. Yuo are conducting a survey of the people of the United Kingdom to find out how popular
the racket sports are. You randomly choose people to call and make 1,000 phone calls to
people scattered across the country. In this study, what is the statistics term for THE
PEOPLE IN THE U.K., and what is the statistics term for THE PEOPLE YOU CALLED?

a) Both the people of the U.K. and the people you called are POPULATIONS
b) The people of the U.K. are the POPULATION, and the people you called are the
SAMPLE.
c) The people of the U.K. are the SAMPLE, and the people you called are the
POPULATION.
d) Both the people of the U.K. and the people you called are SAMPLES.
2. You are interested in how stress affects heart rate in humans. Your dependent variable
would be the _____.
a) Interest
b) Heart rate
c) Humans
d) Stress
3. You are conducting a study to see whether a new experimental medication will cause bald
men to grow hair. You divide your patients into 2 groups. To one group you give the
medication. To the other you give a placebo. In this study the correct terms for the taking of
the medication and the growth of hair are the following.

a) Both the medication and the hair growth are dependent variables.
b) Both the medication and the hair growth are independent variables
c) The medication is the dependent variable, and the hair growth is the independent variable.
d) The medication is the independent variable, and the hair growth is the dependent variable.
4. The entire group of interest for a statistical conclusion is called the
a) Data
b) Population
c) Sample
d) Report
5. A subgroup that is representative of a population is called
a) A category
b) Data
c) A sample

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6. Statistical inference is
a) The process of estimates and conclusions carefully based on data from a sample
b) The process of estimates and conclusions carefully based on data from an entire
population
c) Graphical displays that summarize data
d) None of them.
7. Which situation is a population?
a) Number of smartphones sold by 2 companies in the state of Florida
b)  Weekly salary of all employees in a small company
c) Weekly salary of 10 employees in a big company
d) Chicken owned by 10 families in California
8. Which situation is a sample?
a)  People who like to eat chocolate
b)  Number of school days missed by 100 students in a small city
c)  Blind people in the United States
d) None of these answers
9. Collected data from the members of a sample or population is called _______

10. ________ can be measured numerically.

11. Type of ice cream people like is a

a) Random Variable
b) Qualitative Variable
c) Quantitative Variable
d) None
12. A population is always a collection of all men and men.
a) True
b) False
13. How do descriptive and inferential statistics differ?
a) Descriptive statistics only attempt to describe data, while inferential statistics attempt to make
predictions based on data.
b) Inferential statistics only attempt to describe data, while descriptive statistics attempt to make
predictions based on data.
c) Descriptive statistics are more computationally sophisticated than inferential statistics.
d) Inferential statistics are more computationally sophisticated than descriptive statistics

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14. Both descriptive and inferential statistics are used to change data into information which in
turn is converted into _____________ that leads to better decision making.
a) Knowledge
b) Process
c) Forecast
d) Parameter
15. Inferential statistics is a process that involves all of the following EXCEPT
a) Estimating a parameter
b) Estimating a statistic
c) Test a hypothesis
d) Analyse relationships
16.

In this Hospital Services Study, the process of using sample information for predictions,
forecasts, and estimates is called

a) Inferential Statistics
b) Statistical thinking
c) Descriptive statistics
d) A Process
17. Example of Descriptive test
a) T-Test
b) Frequency, Percentage
c) Anova test
d) Chi-square test
18. Descriptive statistics- Describing data by using
a) Graphs
b) Excel sheet
c) Report
d) Pictures

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19. On the last 3 Sundays, Henry D. Car salesman sold 2, 1, and 0 new cars respectively.
Which one is Descriptive statistics?

a) "Henry never sells more than 2 cars on a Sunday." Although this statement is true for the last
3 Sundays, we do not know that this is true for all Sundays.
b) "Henry is selling fewer cars lately because people have caught on to his dirty tricks." There is
nothing in the information given that tells us that this statement is true.

c) "Henry sold 0 cars last Sunday because he fell asleep in one of the cars on the lot." Again,
this statement is not verifiable based upon the information provided.
d) "Henry averaged 1 new car sold for the last 3 Sundays." These are both descriptive
statements because they can actually be verified from the information provided

20. The last four semesters an instructor taught Intermediate Algebra; the following numbers
of people passed the class.
SEM I-17, SEM II –19, SEM III-4, SEM IV -20
Which of the following conclusions can be obtained from purely descriptive measures?

a) The next time the instructor teaches Intermediate Algebra, we can expect approximately 15
people to pass the class

b) This instructor will never pass more than 20 people in an Intermediate Algebra class.
c) Only 5 people passed one semester because the instructor was in a bad mood the entire
semester.
d) The last four semesters the instructor taught Intermediate Algebra; an average of 15 people
passed the class.

21. The characteristics being studied is nonnumeric is called ________.

22. A variable whose values are countable is called a ________.

23. A variable that can be measured numerically is called _______ .

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24. Variable that can assume any numerical value over a certain interval or intervals is called a
_______.

25. Which following statement is discrete variable?

a) The weights of IT students
b) The temperature in a frozen room in a restaurant.
c) The amounts of milk that cows produce.
d) The number of burgers sold per day in McDonald.

26. Qualitative variable:

a) Number of cars
b) Length
c) Height
d) Gender

27. There are two types of quantitative variables, one is ________, and another one is, ________.

28. Determine whether the given values are from a discrete or continuous data set/variable:

a) A lecturer counts 5 absent students’ names in a Statistics lecture.

b) A visitor found that 23 trees planted in a recreational area were palm trees.

c) Strength of concrete in pounds per square feet.

d) Speed of a train.

e) The number of cars parked in the basement of a shopping complex.

f) Serum HDL cholesterol of 55-year-old lady.

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