This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Data Interpretation > Statistics – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Statistics Quiz 14 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. , 9-What is the range? A) 4. B) 3. C) 6. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6. 2. , 7-What is the median? A) 4. B) 5. C) 2. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 3. Deals with organizing and summarizing observations so that they are easier to comprehend A) Inferential Statistics. B) Statistician. C) Descriptive Statistics. D) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Descriptive Statistics. 4. Which scenario would produce the least biased results? A) Asking athletes at a gym what their favorite television show is. B) Asking shoppers at a store where their favorite place to shop is. C) Asking fans at a baseball game who their favorite baseball team is. D) Asking students in a college library what their favorite college sports team is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asking athletes at a gym what their favorite television show is. 5. Taos, Acoma, Zuni, and Cochiti are the names of four Native American pueblos from the population of pueblos in Arizona and New Mexico. Identify the data level. A) Nominal. B) Interval. C) Ratio. D) Ordinal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nominal. 6. Descriptive statistics is A) Statistical methods used to forecast something under study. B) Statistical methods used to describe data that have been collected. C) Statistical methods used to find something about population. D) Statistical methods used to estimate something under study. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Statistical methods used to describe data that have been collected. 7. Which of the following is true regarding secondary source of data? ? ? A) It provides first hand information. B) It implies collection of data from its original source. C) Collection of data from sources who already collected the data. D) Can rely on this data as compare to primary data. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collection of data from sources who already collected the data. 8. An investigation of the opinions or experience of a group of people, based on a series of questions. A) Data. B) Survey. C) Histogram. D) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Survey. 9. What is the average weekly allowance of HUMSS-MARX student for the first semester of SY 2018-2019? What is the population of the study? A) All HUMSS-MARX students for the first semester, SY 2018-2019. B) Weekly allowance of the HUMSS-MARX. C) All HUMSS-MARX students. D) All students who have allowance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All HUMSS-MARX students for the first semester, SY 2018-2019. 10. The sum of the relative frequencies for all classes will always equal A) Any value larger than one. B) The sample size. C) The number of classes. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One. 11. The following grades were obtained from the first exam of a english class:70 85 91 67 98 80. What is the standard deviation of the data? A) 11.99. B) 31. C) 10.94. D) 81.83. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10.94. 12. A radio station in Raleigh, NC wants to know the most popular song of the week. The DJ surveys random listeners who call in throughout the week. What is the population of the DJ's survey? A) All the people in Raleigh, NC. B) Listeners of this radio station. C) The listeners who call the station. D) The most popular song of the week. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Listeners of this radio station. 13. In plural sense, which is not a characterstic of statistics? A) Aggregate of data. B) Only expressed in words. C) Collected in a systematic manner. D) Affected by multiplicity of causes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Only expressed in words. 14. A teacher asks all her students five questions about their study habits. A) Survey. B) Observational Study. C) Experiment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Survey. 15. A variable that quantifies an element of a population. A) Parameter. B) Qualitative Variable. C) Sample. D) Quantitative Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quantitative Variable. 16. Calculate the interquartile range of the following data17, 18, 18, 19, 20, 21, 21, 23, 25 A) 4. B) 5. C) 3. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 17. Facts, or a set of information or observation under study A) Data. B) Variable. C) Constant. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Data. 18. A school principal wants to see which subject the 695 students in his school liked best. Which choice BEST represents a sample? A) The girls in the school. B) 1 classroom for each grade. C) All the students in the school. D) The students making a B in math. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1 classroom for each grade. 19. Which is the root of all economic problems? A) Unemployment. B) Scarcity. C) Inflation. D) Abundance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scarcity. 20. The school librarian wants to determine how many students use the library on a regular basis. What type of sampling method would she use if she chose to select every 3rd student who enters the library on Tuesday. A) Convenience Sample only. B) Simple Random Sample. C) Stratified Random Sample. D) Systematic Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Systematic Sample. 21. For a certain distribution, mode and median were found to be 100 and 1250 respectively. Find mean for this distribution using an empirical relation A) 1265. B) 1145. C) 1375. D) 1550. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1375. 22. The school librarian wants to determine how many students use the library on a regular basis. What type of sampling method would she use if she chose to use a random number generator to randomly select 50 students from the school's attendance roster. A) Convenience Sample. B) Simple Random Sample. C) Stratified Random Sample. D) Interval Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple Random Sample. 23. Which of these is a statistical question? A) What is your address?. B) Did you read today's newspaper?. C) How old are the students in your class?. D) What is your name?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How old are the students in your class?. 24. Which of the following is an example of qualitative data A) Everyday temperature. B) Number of vegetarian students. C) Number of illiterate people in India. D) Appreciation of art. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appreciation of art. 25. A poll was conducted in which 1000 adults were asked if they prefer bottled water or tap water, and 57% of them said they prefer bottled water. In this scenario, the 57% is a ..... A) Statistic. B) Population. C) Parameter. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Statistic. 26. ..... is the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data in order to make decisions. A) Data. B) Population. C) Sample. D) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Statistics. 27. The best defense against bias in which every individual is given a fair chance of being selected A) Population. B) Sampling. C) Survey. D) Randomization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Randomization. 28. A Type I error is when: A) We reject the null hypothesis when it is actually true. B) We obtain the wrong test statistic. C) We fail to reject the null hypothesis when it's actually false. D) We reject the alternate hypothesis when it's actually true. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We reject the null hypothesis when it is actually true. 29. In statistics, a sample: A) Can be used for inferences but not for predictions. B) Is a set of data taken from the population to represent the population. C) Is another word for population. D) Is only used in descriptive statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is a set of data taken from the population to represent the population. 30. The relative frequency of a class is computed by A) Dividing the midpoint of the class by the sample size. B) Dividing the frequency of the class by the midpoint. C) Dividing the frequency of the class by the sample size. D) Dividing the sample size by the frequency of the class. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dividing the frequency of the class by the sample size. ← 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