Question 1.

How might an extreme value in the sample data set affect the value of the mean?

One extreme value is still only one value, so it cannot affect the mean very much.

An extreme value cannot affect the mean if it is close to the mean.

Since all values are summed, any extreme value can influence the mean to a large extent.

All values are treated equally when determining the mean, so an extreme value cannot affect it.

Question 2.

Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency?

Interquartile range

Mode

Geometric mean

Median

Question 3.

Which of the following is the most appropriate measure of central tendency for ordinal data?

Variance

Mean

Coefficient of Variation

Median

Question 4.

Which of the following measures of central tendency is not affected by extreme values in the sample
data set?

Median

Mean

Mode

Median and Mode

Question 5.

How many elements of a data set are between the first and third quartiles?

One third

Three fourths

One fourth

One half

Question 6.

Which of the following measures become larger as the data is more dispersed?

Mean and Median

Median and Range

Range, Variance, and Standard Deviation

Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation

Question 7.

The sum of deviations about the arithmetic mean is always equal to ______________ .

Geometric Mean

Variance

Question 8.

The Chebyshev Rule indicates that the percentage of values that will be found within three standard
deviations of the mean will be _________ .

At least 89%

At least 67%

At least 97%

At least 75%
Question 9.

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The distribution above is:

symmetric

normally distributed

skewed to the left

skewed to the right

Question 10.

Which of the following is not required for the construction of a boxplot?

Largest value

Mean

Second quartile

Median

Question 11.

A numerical measure for the strength of the linear relationship between two variables is?

Sample linearity

Sample covariance

Sample dispersion

Sample standard deviation

Question 12.

The coefficient of correlation will be a value in which of the following ranges?

(0, 1)

(-1, 1)

(-infinity, +infinity)

(-1, 0)
Question 13.

How is the arithmetic mean related to the variance?

Variance is not related to the mean, but standard deviation is.

Variance measures the variability of values about the mean.

Variance has the square of the mean in its formula.

They are not related. One is a measure of central tendency, and the other is a measure of
variance.

Question 14.

When computing numerical descriptive measures from values that have been summarized by a
frequency distribution, which of the following is most important to the calculation?

The standard deviation of the class intervals.

The midpoint of the class intervals.

The number of class intervals in the frequency distribution.

The range of the frequency distribution.

Question 15.

The difference between a data value and the arithmetic mean of a sample divided by its standard
deviation is called:

Mean variation

the empirical rule

Coefficient of correlation

Z score

Question 1.

Numerical values for variance may be negative.

True

False
Question 2.

There are as many values on one side of the arithmetic mean as on the other.

True

False

Question 3.

If the mean is less than the median, then the distribution is skewed to the left.

True

False

Question 4.

A data set may have no mode, one mode, or multiple modes.

True

False

Question 5.

When numerical data has been summarized by a frequency distribution, the ability to estimate the
mean and standard deviation of the data set is lost.

True

False

Question 6.

The median is less sensitive to outliers than the mean.

True

False

Question 7.

The second quartile is equivalent to the mean.

True

False
Question 8.

Both the empirical rule and the Chebyshev Rule apply to the same types of distributions.

True

False

Question 9.

A Z score of 2.0 indicates that the value is located two standard deviations to the right of the mean.

True

False

Question 10.

The “box” portion of the boxplot represents the middle half of the values.

True

False

Question 11.

Sample covariance is less useful than the coefficient of correlation as a measure of the strength of the
linear relationship between two variables.

True

False

Question 12.

The arithmetic mean is the only measure of central tendency in which all values in the sample data set
play an equal role in the calculation.

True

False
Question 13.

A geometric mean is the geometric center of all of the values depicted on a scatter plot.

True

False

Question 14.

For a highly skewed distribution, the empirical rule approximates that 95% of the values are within two
standard deviations of the mean.

True

False

Question 15.

Six randomly selected customers at a shopping center waited 4, 5, 4, 2, 3, and 0 minutes in the check-
out line. The median wait time is 4 minutes.

True

False