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Instruction: This is an open book and open notes exam and you have three hours to work
on it. You may use your handheld calculator. The exam has 35 multiple choice problems
(questions 1 to 35). The answers to the multiple choice should be written in the answer
table. Please print your name, student ID and your major on the exam sheet.
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1. Determine what the key terms refer to 2. In right-skewed distributions, which of
in the following study. the following is the correct statement?

A study was conducted at a local col- (a) The distance from Q1 to Q2 is

lege to analyze the average cumulative
GPAs of students who graduated last
year.
Fill in the letter of the phrase that
best describes each of the items below:
Population ; Sample ; Pa-
rameter ; Statistic ; Variable
. (d)
a) all students who attended the col-
lege last year
b) the cumulative GPA of one stu-
dent who graduated from the col-
lege last year
c) 3.65, 2.80, 1.50, 3.90
d) a group of students who gradu-
ated from the college last year,
randomly selected
e) the average cumulative GPA of
students who graduated from the
college last year
greater than the distance from
Q2 to Q3.
(b) The distance from Q1 to Q2 is
less than the distance from Q2
to Q3.
(c) The arithmetic mean is less than
the median.
The mode is greater than the
arithmetic mean.
3. For which of the following population
parameters is sampling not necessary?
(a) The average life of light bulbs
produced by a manufacturer.
(b) The average height of professors
in NCCU Statistics department.
(c) The percentage of public
school teachers who support
Democrats.
(d) The average content of cereal
boxes produced by a manufac-
turer.

f) all students who graduated from

4. Find the mean for the data shown in
the college last year
the plot.
g) the average cumulative GPA of
students in the study who grad-
uated from the college last year

(a) a; c; d; c; b
(b) a; g; f; c; e
(c) f; d; e; g; b
(d) None of the above (a) 5
(b) 4
(c) Hazel
(d) Cannot be determined

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5. The owner of a super market recorded
the number of customers who vis-
ited his store each hour on a
particular day. The results were
15, 10, 12, 9, 18, 5, 8, 9, 15, 10, and 11.
Which box plot matches the data?
7. How many descriptions below is/are
TRUE?
1. A ZIP code is quantitative vari-
able
2. The zero point of an interval
scale reflects a complete absence
of what is being measured.

3. The two branches of the study

of statistics are generally referred
to as descriptive and inferential
statistics.

(a) 1
(b) 2
(a) Plot 1 (c) 3
(b) Plot 2 (d) 0
(c) Plot 3
(d) Plot 4

6. Which of the following statements are

true?

I. All variables can be classified as

quantitative or categorical vari-
ables.

II. Categorical variables can be con- 8. John has taken an statistics

tinuous variables. test 6 times and his scores are
82, 85, 90, 95, 27 and 87. Which mea-
III. Quantitative variables can be dis- sure of central tendency is most
crete variables. appropriate for his scores?
(a) I only (a) Mean
(b) III only (b) Median
(c) I and II (c) Mode
(d) I and III (d) Range

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 9. A survey was conducted to deter- 11. Find the mode for the data shown in
mine how people rated the quality of the line plot, which depicts the favorite
programming available on television. topics in mathematics for grade 9
Respondents were asked to rate the students.
overall quality from 0 (no quality at
all) to 100 (extremely good quality).
The stem-and-leaf display of the data
is shown below.

Stem Leaves
3 24
4 03478999
5 0112345
6 12566 (a) Geometry
7 01 (b) Algebra
8
(c) Statistics
9 2
(d) Probability
What percentage of the respondents
rated overall television quality with a
rating from 40 through 58?
(a) 44
(b) 38
(c) 60
(d) 56

10. Suppose you are taking a multiple-

choice test with c choices for each ques-
tion. In answering a question on this
test, the probability that you know the
answer is p. If you don’t know the an-
swer, you choose one at random. What 12. There are 8 greeting cards and 5 gift
is the probability that you knew the an- items with Holly. Find the number of
swer to a question, given that you an- ways in which Holly can choose a card
swered it correctly? and a gift item.
p
(a) c (a) 8
(b) p (b) 40
p
(c) p+c (c) 5
p
(d) p+(1 p)/c (d) 13

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13. Choose the correct scale for variables: 15. The line plot shows the test score of
each student in Ms. Helen’s science
1. A respondent of a survey is asked class. Find the range of scores.
whether the NCCU Griffins per-
formance in the last game was ex-
cellent, good, fair, or poor.

2. An analyst collects data on

the weekly closing price of gold
throughout a year.

3. The Fahrenheit scale for measur-

ing temperature (a) 50
(a) Ordinal; Ratio; Interval (b) 20
(b) Ratio; Interval; Nominal (c) 70
(c) Nominal; Ratio; Interval (d) 60
(d) None of the above. 16. Given events J and K: P(J) = 0.18;
P(K) = 0.37; P(J OR K) = 0.45. Find
the probability of the complement of
event (J AND K).
(a) 1-0.45
(b) 1-0.1
(c) 0.18+0.37
(d) 0.45
Data gathered from 15 basketball play-
ers on the NCCU basketball team when
they were asked how they liked to wear
their hair. Supposed one basketball
player from the team is randomly se-
14. Find the interquartile range from the lected. Please answer the questions 17–
given box plot. 18.
Hair Style/Hair Color Blond Brown Black
17. Side Part 3 2 5
Buzz Cut 2 2 1

Find the probability that the basketball

player has black hair GIVEN that he
has a Side Part style.
(a) 4 (a) 7/15
(b) 3.5 (b) 5/10
(c) 5 (c) 2/15
(d) 7.5 (d) 5/15

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18. Find the probability that the basketball 21. The Boom company has recently de-
player has his hair Buzz Cut OR has cided to raise the salaries of all employ-
brown hair. ees by 10%. Which of the following is
(a) 7/15 (are) expected to be a↵ected by this
raise?
(b) 5/10
(a) Mean and mode only
(c) 2/15
(b) Mode and median only
(d) 5/15
(c) Mean and median only
(d) Mean, median, and mode

19. Let C and D be two events with P(C) =

0.25, P(D) = 0.45, and P (C \D) = 0.1.
What is P (C c \ D)?
(a) 0.45
22. Which of the following statements
(b) 0.35
about variance is the most accurate?
(c) 0.1
(a) Variance is the square root of the
(d) 0.55 standard deviation.
(b) Variance can be both, positive
or negative.
(c) Variance is denominated in the
same units as the original data.
20. The scores of students of four teams (d) Variance is the average of the
A, B, C, and D in their math tests squared deviations from the
were recorded. Each team reported an mean.
average of 90. Which of the following
measure of central tendency was used
by the teams?

A: 85, 81, 91, 96, 97

B: 93, 92, 90, 90, 91
C: 85, 81, 94, 93, 90
D: 85, 89, 90, 90, 90 23. Di↵erences between categories are
meaningless with data.
(a) Team A used median (a) Interval
(b) Team B used mode (b) Ratio
(c) Team C used mean (c) Ordinal
(d) Team D used mean (d) continuous

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24. When using a polygon to graph quanti- 27. The following box plot shows the U.S.
tative data, what does each point rep- population for 1990, the latest available
resent? year.
(a) The lower limit of a particular
class and its width
(b) The midpoint of a particular
class and its associated cumula-
tive frequency or cumulative rel-
ative frequency 12.6% are age 65 and over. Approxi-
mately what percentage of the popula-
(c) The midpoint of a particular
tion are working age adults (above age
class and its associated fre-
17 to age 65)?
quency or relative frequency
(d) The upper limit of a particular (a) 12.6%
class and its associated cumula- (b) 12.4%
tive frequency or cumulative rel-
(c) 62.4%
ative frequency Polygon shows
the midpoints of each class and (d) 50%
its associated frequency or rela-
tive frequency. Carlos plays college soccer. He makes
a goal 65% of the time he shoots. Car-
los is going to attempt two goals in
25. There are 3 arrangements of the word a row in the next game. A = the
DAD, namely DAD, ADD, and DDA. event Carlos is successful on his first at-
How many arrangements are there of tempt. P (A) = 0.65. B = the event Car-
the word PROBABILITY? los is successful on his second attempt.
(a) 11 P (B) = 0.65. Carlos tends to shoot in
streaks. The probability that he makes
(b) P21 1 the second goal GIVEN that he made
11
(c) 2
the first goal is 0.90. Please answer the
11! questions 28–29.
(d) 2!2!

28. What is the probability that he makes

both goals?
26. In an accounting class of 200 stu-
dents, the mean and standard devia- (a) 0.65
tion of scores was 70 and 4, respec- (b) 0.65 ⇥ 0.9
tively. Please determine the number of
(c) 0.9
students who scored more than 76.
(d) 0.652
(a) At most 200 ⇥ 0.56
(b) At most 200 ⇥ 0.44 29. Are A and B independent?
(c) At least 200 ⇥ 0.56 (a) Yes
(d) At least 200 ⇥ 0.44 (b) No

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30. The accompanying chart shows the 33. Suppose now that events A, B and C
numbers of books written by each au- are mutually independent with P (A) =
thor in a collection of cookbooks. What 0.3, P (B) = 0.4, P (C) = 0.5. then
type of chart is this? P (Ac \ B \ C)=?
(a) 0.06
(b) 0.14
(c) 0.6
(d) not enough information to tell

(a) Bar chart for quantitative data

(b) Bar chart for qualitative data
(c) Frequency histogram for quanti- 34. True(T) or False(F).
tative data
1. Statistics is the methodology of
(d) Frequency histogram for quali- extracting unnecessary informa-
tative data tion from a data set.

2. Population parameters are used

to estimate corresponding sample
31. Which measure of central tendency can statistics.
be used for both numerical and categor-
ical variables? 3. The branch of statistical studies
(a) Arithmetic mean. called descriptive statistics sum-
marizes important aspects of a
(b) Median. data set.
(c) Mode.
4. The branch of statistical studies
(d) Geometric mean. called inferential statistics refers
to drawing conclusions about
sample data by analyzing the cor-
responding population.
32. Professors at a local university earn
an average salary of $80,000 with a 5. Unstructured data conforms to a
standard deviation of $6,000. The predefined row-column format.
salary distribution is approximately
bell-shaped. What can be said about 6. Big data is a catchphrase that im-
the percentage of salaries that are at plies a complete set of population
least $74,000? data.

(a) It is about 68%. (a) F; F; T; F; F; F

(b) It is about 84%. (b) F; F; T; T; T; T
(c) It is about 95%. (c) F; F; T; F; T; T
(d) It is about 97.5%. (d) none of the above.

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35. An analyst believes the probability that
U.S. stock returns exceed long-term
corporate bond returns over a five-year
period is based on personal assessment.
This type of probability is best charac-
terized as a(n) .
(a) classical probability
(b) relative probability
(c) objective probability
(d) subjective probability

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 Answer Key for Exam A
Multiple Choice Questions (1 point each)
1. (c) 8. (b) 15. (b) 22. (d) 29. (b)

2. (b) 9. (c) 16. (b) 23. (c) 30. (b)

3. (b) 10. (d) 17. (b) 24. (c) 31. (c)

4. (d) 11. (b) 18. (a) 25. (d) 32. (b)

5. (d) 12. (b) 19. (b) 26. (b) 33. (b)

6. (d) 13. (a) 20. (b) 27. (c) 34. (a)

7. (a) 14. (c) 21. (d) 28. (b) 35. (d)