This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Data Interpretation > Statistics – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Statistics Quiz 11 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which types of graphs are used to show changes over time? A) Line and Bar. B) Pie and Bar. C) Line and Pictograph. D) Bar and Pictograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line and Bar. 2. Probability is ..... A) The chance that some event will occur. B) A game that involves coins. C) A guarantee. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The chance that some event will occur. 3. Descriptive statistics is used to A) Compare the groups. B) Generalized the results. C) Predict the association between the variables. D) Describe the Characteristics of sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Describe the Characteristics of sample. 4. Which one is NOT refer to inferential statistics A) Methods to find out something about population. B) Also called inductive statistics. C) Make inferences from data to more general conditions. D) Used to present quantitative descriptions in a manageable form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Used to present quantitative descriptions in a manageable form. 5. Drawing a general conclusion about a set of data from a sample of the population A) Survey. B) Sample. C) Population. D) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Statistics. 6. Which measure of central tendency best represents this set of data:13, 13, 11, 13, 13, 12, 13 A) Mode. B) Median. C) Mean. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mode. 7. A variable (or response variable) is A) A characteristic or trait that will be ignored in a sample population. B) A characteristic that changes when the data is collected. C) A characteristic of interest about each individual element of a population or sample. D) A characteristic that is irrelevant to the collection of the data. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A characteristic of interest about each individual element of a population or sample. 8. What is normal distribution? A) A symmetrical bell-shaped graph. B) A graph that is skewed to the right. C) A graph that is skewed to the left. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A symmetrical bell-shaped graph. 9. Find the probability of rolling greater than a 1 on a single die. A) 6/6. B) 5/6. C) 1/6. D) 4/6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5/6. 10. Which of the following is an example of a statistic? A) The average test score was 76. B) (10 x 10)15 = 115. C) Tomorrow night there will be a full moon. D) It looks like there's a good chance of rain tonight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The average test score was 76. 11. Is an assumption about the population parameter? A) Population. B) Hyper. C) Hypothesis. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothesis. 12. The measures that help to solve an economic problem are called what in economics? A) Economic Model. B) Economic Policies. C) Economic Formule. D) Economic Solution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Economic Policies. 13. What is the mean of the following data:5, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 19, 2, 8, 10, 5 A) 6. B) 17. C) 5. D) 7.091. E) 19. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7.091. 14. At a local high school, GPA's are normally distributed with a mean of 2.9 and standard deviation of 0.6. What percentage of students at the high school have a GPA between 2.3 and 3.5? A) 84%. B) 68%. C) 99.7%. D) 95%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 68%. 15. A ..... consists of all subjects (human or otherwise) that are being studied. A) Exam. B) Population. C) Sample. D) Study. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 16. Data obtained from measuring A) Continuous. B) Discrete. C) Dichotomic. D) Polynomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Continuous. 17. "Noticing and recording a certain characteristic of a group" is the definition for: A) Observation. B) Survey. C) Bias. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Observation. 18. What does it mean for a graph of data to be SKEWED RIGHT? A) Most of the data is grouped to the left side. B) Most of the data is grouped to the right side. C) Most of the data is in the middle (draw a line down the middle and both sides look the same). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Most of the data is grouped to the left side. 19. What is statistics? A) The science of collecting and analysing data. B) Statistics collected from an entire population. C) An element or feature that can vary. D) A group chosen from a population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The science of collecting and analysing data. 20. What are 2 branches of Statistics? A) Parameter and Statistics. B) Quantitative and Categorical. C) Inferential and Descriptive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inferential and Descriptive. 21. Extreme values are also known as what? A) Medians. B) Outliers. C) Modes. D) Interquartile ranges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outliers. 22. Each and every element of a large group of data. A) Population. B) Sample. C) Data. D) Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 23. People who select the one measure of average that lends the most evidence to support their position is an example of which type of misuse? A) Ambiguous Averages. B) Suspect Samples. C) Changing the Subject. D) Implied Connections. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ambiguous Averages. 24. If the data are labels or categories that are used to define an attribute of an element, the scale we use is ..... A) Reason. B) Nominal. C) Interval. D) Ordinal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nominal. 25. Which of the following is a limitation of statistics? A) Single figures are treated as statistics. B) It deals with quantitative data. C) Iot does not study qualitative phenomena. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iot does not study qualitative phenomena. 26. What is the mode in the following numbers? [3, 24, 3, 7, 30, 1, 3, 7, 3] A) 3 and 7 both are modes. B) 1 and 7 both are modes. C) 3 only. D) 7 only. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3 and 7 both are modes. 27. Identify the POPULATION in the following question:What are the ages of the students at Clarke Middle School? A) Students. B) Age. C) Clarke Middle School. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Students. 28. Sales are best presented through a ..... graph. A) Circle. B) Line. C) Picture. D) Bar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 29. A dog owner wants to know what shampoo is better for his dogs. He washes one dog with shampoo A and one with shampoo B. He then compared their fur. A) Survey. B) Observational Study. C) Experiment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Experiment. 30. Parameters describes A) Mean value of sample. B) Variation in the sample. C) Central value of population. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Central value of population. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesStatistics Quiz 1Statistics Quiz 2Statistics Quiz 3Statistics Quiz 4Statistics Quiz 5Statistics Quiz 6Statistics Quiz 7Statistics Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books