STAT 151 Practice Midterm 2

LAST NAME: ___________________ FIRST NAME: ___________________________

STUDENT ID: ___________________ STAT 151 SECTION: ______________________

Instructions:
1) Personal items must be placed aside prior to the start of the exam.
2) All portable electronic devices must be turned off, including cell phones, pagers, etc.
3) No communications with other students are allowed.
4) The exam is closed book.
5) It has 30 multiple choice questions (each worth 1 mark).
6) Make sure you put your last name (the same one that is illustrated on your OneCard), first
name (the same one that is illustrated on your OneCard), student ID #, and signature on
the front page of the exam booklet. Also, make sure you use ONLY PENCIL to mark
your name, student ID #, and your exam version number on the scantron sheet.
7) Choose only the best answer for each question.
8) Put all answers on the scantron by shading the letter A, B, C, D, or E corresponding
to your chosen answer. Make sure your answers are clearly marked by pencil.
Otherwise, no marks will be given.
9) No credit will be given for anything written in the examination booklet. If you change an
answer on the scantron, be sure that you erase your first mark completely; then blacken
the circle of the answer choice you prefer. Your score will be based on the number of
questions you answer correctly. No credit will be given for omitted answers; no credit
will be lost for wrong answers.
10) You must mark all your answers on the answer sheet during the allotted time. No
additional time will be allowed at the end of the session for this purpose.
11) You must return your scantron, exam booklet, z-table, and the formula sheet to the
instructor when you finish the exam.
12) Copying questions or answers of this exam to take from the exam room is prohibited.
13) You are permitted to use a nonprogrammable calculator and the formula sheet provided.
Any PROGRAMMABLE or GRAPHIC calculators will be confiscated (only to be
returned at the end of the examination) and, as such, you will be required to do the exam
without a calculator.
14) Total marks of this exam: 30
15) You have 1 hour and 30 minutes.

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1. Last weekend police ticketed 18 men GTM

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E) I, II, and III

3. Suppose that a Normal model describes fuel economy (miles per gallon) for automobiles and
that a Saturn has a standardized score (z-score) of +2.2. This means that Saturns . . .
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D) have a standard deviation of 2.2 mpg.
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isn’t perfect and it is costly to operate. Since there’s a safety hazard if the roadway is thinner
than the minimum 23 inch thickness, the company sets the machine to average 26 inches for
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can be described by a Normal model with standard deviation 1.75 inches. What proportion
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6. A television station is interested in predicting whether voters in its listening area are in
favour of federal funding for abortions. It asks its viewers to phone in and indicate whether
they support or are opposed to this. Of the 2241 viewers who phoned in, 1574 (70.24%)
were opposed to federal funding for abortions. The sample is
A) all viewers listening to the show.
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C) it is possible to conclude cause and effect provided the data was collected using a
stratification process.
D) it is possible to conclude cause and effect provided the sample size is large enough.
E) it is possible to conclude cause and effect provided the data was chosen randomly.

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9. In a class of 10 students, the results of the midterm exam have been released. Their
scores (in %) are as follows:
50, 55, 60, 67, 70, 77, 80, 83, 84, 89 now 93

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One of the students noticed their exam score is not added up correctly, so they asked the
instructor and got a mark increase from 89% to 93%. Which of the following measures
will be affected?
A) Mean, median, standard deviation, and IQR mean calculate using all values affeo
B) Mean and standard deviation
C) Mean and median
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D) Standard deviation and IQR median middle position unaffected
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10. Find the probability that a sample of 34 babies has mean birthweight less than 7.2 pounds.
At birth, babies average 7.8 pounds, with a standard deviation of 2.1 pounds. The model for
birthweights should be roughly normal.
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11. Suppose your local school district decides to randomly test high school students for attention
deficit disorder (ADD). There are three high schools in the district, each with grades 9-12.
The school board pools all of the students together and randomly samples 250 students. Is
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D) No, because we can’t guarantee that there are students from each grade in the sample. chanceto be
E) Unable to tell as we need more information. chosen

12. More dogs are being diagnosed with thyroid problems than have been diagnosed in the past.
A researcher identified 50 puppies not already diagnosed with a thyroid problem and
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followed the dogs for several years to see if any developed thyroid problems. This is a(n)
A) randomized experiment.
B) survey. prospective study
C) prospective study.
D) retrospective study.
E) None of the above.

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that she got only 16 heads. But then you get bored and leave. If the coin is fair, how many
heads do you expect her to have when she has finished the 200 tosses?
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C) 96
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18. The city council has 6 men and 3 women. If we randomly choose two of them to co-chair a
committee, what is the probability these chairpersons are the same gender?
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22. The table shows how a company’s employees commute to work.

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What is the probability that a randomly chosen employee drives a car to work?
A) 26/90
B) 56/330
C) 82/420
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23. Refer to Q22, if a randomly chosen employee is in the management level, what is the
probability that he also buses to work?
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24. The five-number summary of credit hours for 24 students in an introductory statistics class
is:
Min Q1 Median Q3 Max
13.0 15.0 16.5 1QR Qz
18.0 Q 22.0 15 3
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A) there are no outliers in the data. lower Qi 1.5 1QR
B) there is at least one low outlier in the data. 15 1.5 3 10.5 no values
C) there is at least one high outlier in the data. smallerthan
upper Qz 11.5 1QR this
D) there are both low and high outliers in the data.
E) None of the above. if t 1.5 3 22 5 no values
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collect a sample. Which should mmbe true if we use a large sample rather than a small one?
e I. The distribution of our sample data will be approximately normal.
II. The sampling distribution of the sample means will be approximately normal. A
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26. Hoping to get information that would allow them to negotiate new rates with their
advertisers, Natural Health magazine phoned a random sample of 600 subscribers. 64% of

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those polled said they use nutritional supplements. Which is true?
I. The population of interest is the people who read this magazine.
II. “64%” is not a statistic; it’s the parameter of interest.
III. This sampling design should provide the company with a reasonably accurate
estimate of the percentage of all subscribers who use supplements.
In
A) I only
B) I and II only
C) I and III only
D) II and III only
E) I, II, and III

27. An Ontario hospital concerned about the rising number of low birthweight babies collected
data from 300 births over a five year time span. They recorded the mother's age, the mother's
pre-pregnancy weight, the level of prenatal care (none, minimal, adequate), and whether the
mother used drugs during pregnancy (cigarettes, alcohol, etc.). Identify the variables that
were collected and their type.
A) Mother's age, numerical; mother's pre-pregnancy weight, numerical; level of prenatal
care, categorical; mother's drug use, numerical.
B) Mother's age, categorical; mother's pre-pregnancy weight, numerical; level of prenatal
care, categorical; mother’s drug use, categorical.
C) Mother's age, numerical; mother's pre-pregnancy weight, categorical; level of prenatal
care, categorical; mother's drug use, categorical.
D) Mother's age, numerical; mother's pre-pregnancy weight, numerical; level of
prenatal care, categorical; mother's drug use, categorical.
E) Mother's age, categorical; mother's pre-pregnancy weight, categorical; level of prenatal
care, numerical; mother’s drug use, numerical.

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28. Which is true of the data shown in the histogram?

I. The distribution is approximately symmetric.

II. The mean and median are approximately equal.
III. The median and IQR to summarize these data summarize the data better than the
mean and standard deviation. X due to condition I t 1
A) I only
B) III only
C) I and II
D) I and III
E) I, II, and III

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The following question refers to the summary statistics output that was discussed in the
Lab 1 Instructions.

29. The summary statistics output for the sales data of each of the four salespersons from
January to March are below. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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A) The sales of salesperson 1 (Row 1) has an average of 133.

B) The sales of salesperson 2 (Row 2) has a standard deviation of 18,045.44.
C) The IQR of the sales for salesperson 3 (Row 3) is 20.
X Range 119 99 20 lQR
D) The range of the sales for salesperson 4 (Row 4) is 10.
X Range422 99 231 10
E) The sales data are strongly skewed for each of the salesperson.

mean x median for each salesperson

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The following question refers to the Contingency Table of Gender and Smoker variables
that were discussed in the Lab 1 Instructions (where non-smoker = 0 and smoker = 1).

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30. The output for the Contingency Table of Gender and Smoker variables is shown below:

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A) 57.14% of the sample are female.X P F 544
B) 37.5% of the smokers are female. X PCEIs 46
C) 60% of the non-smokers are female.
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D) 44.44% of the sample are male smokers.
E) 55.56% of the males are non-smokers. 5
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