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1.In a sample of 800 students in a university, 160, or 20%, are Business majors. Based on the
above information, the school's paper reported that "20% of all the students at the university
are Business majors." This report is an example of
a. a sample b. a population c. statistical inference
d. descriptive statistics e. None of the above answers is correct. ANSWER:

2. A statistics professor asked students in a class their ages. On the basis of this information,
the professor states that the average age of all the students in the university is 21 years. This
is an example of
a. a census b. descriptive statistics c. an experiment
d. statistical inference e. None of the above answers is correct. ANSWER:

3. The data which have already been collected by someone is called _______ data.
a. secondary b. primary c. array d. quantitative ANSWER:

4. The goal of ___________ is to focus on summarizing and explaining a specific set of data.
a.  Inferential statistics b.  Descriptive statistics
c.  None of the above d.  All of the above ANSWER:

5. “Number of visits per week” is what kind of data?

a. Qualitative b. quantitative-continuous c. quantitative-discrete ANSWER:

6. The methods used to determine something about a population on the basis of a sample is
called:
(a) Inferential statistics (b) Descriptive statistics
(c) Applied statistics (d) Theoretical statistics ANSWER:

7. Listings of the data in the form in which these are collected are known as:
(a) Secondary data (b) Raw data
(c) Arrayed data (d) Qualitative data ANSWER:

8. Graphical and numerical methods are specialized process utilized in

A) Education Statistics B) Descriptive Statistics
C) Business Statistics D) Social Statistics ANSWER:

9. In the plural sense, statistics means:

(a) Numerical data (b) Methods
(c) Population data (d) Sample data ANSWER:

10. Weight of earth is:

(a) Discrete variable (b) Qualitative variable
(c) Continuous variable (d) Difficult to tell ANSWER: