This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Data Interpretation > Statistics – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Statistics Quiz 17 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Quantitative variables are separated into ..... A) Ordinal and nominal. B) Discrete and continuous. C) Discrete and nominal. D) Ordinal and continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discrete and continuous. 2. To find out what the preferred ice cream flavor is, wait outside an ice cream parlor and ask every 4th person leaving the store to name his or her favorite flavor until you get 25 responses is an example of ..... A) Convenience Sample. B) Simple Random Sample. C) Stratified Random Sample. D) Systematic Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Systematic Sample. 3. Ana wants to know the average student's opinion of the tardy policy at her school. Which group of students should she survey in order to achieve the most accurate results? A) Thirty students who are often tardy. B) Thirty students who are rarely tardy. C) Thirty of her friends. D) Thirty randomly selected students from her school. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thirty randomly selected students from her school. 4. Basic economic activities A) Production. B) Consumption. C) Distribution. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 5. Kim surveys 100 moviegoers that entered the movie theater in the first hour. What type of sampling method is this? A) Random. B) Convenience. C) Biased. D) Self-Selected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convenience. 6. Who expressed the View that "Economics is neutral between ends" ? A) Robbins. B) Marshall. C) Pigou. D) Adam Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robbins. 7. Part of the entire group being surveyed. A) Random sample. B) Biased sample. C) Sample. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sample. 8. What is another name for average A) Range. B) Mean. C) Q1/Q3. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mean. 9. How do you find the range? A) Look for the number that repeats the most. B) Add the numbers in your data set, then divide by the amount you added. C) Highest number minus the lowest number. D) Order least to greatest, then slash from each side until you reach the middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Highest number minus the lowest number. 10. Which economist is known as the "Father of modern economics" ? A) Alfred Marshall. B) Adam Smith. C) Samuelson. D) Karl Marx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adam Smith. 11. An assertion that a parameter in a statistical model takes a particular value, and is assumed true until experimental evidence suggest otherwise? A) Alternative hypothesis (H1). B) Null hypothesis (Ho). C) Type 1 error. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Null hypothesis (Ho). 12. A landscaper needed some rope and cut it into the different lengths shown here. 14 in., 12 in., 10 in., 11 in., 10 in., 11 in., 11 in., 12 in., and 11 in. What is the mode of the lengths of rope? A) 10 in. B) 13 in. C) 12 in. D) 11 in. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 11 in. 13. Classify.The numbers of cheeseburgers a fast-food restaurant serves each day A) None of these. B) Abstract. C) Continuous. D) Discrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discrete. 14. The manager of a bookstore surveys people who buy mystery novels to see if the store should expand its hours. What is the population? A) People who buy mystery novels. B) People who like to read. C) Residents of the town. D) People who visit the bookstore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People who visit the bookstore. 15. Weight (in grams) of tomatoes at a grocery store is what type of variable? A) Qualitative/ categorical. B) Quantitative/Numeric. C) Quantitative and discrete. D) Quantitative and continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quantitative and continuous. 16. Corresponding z-values of the confidence level A) Critical Values. B) Condifence Level. C) Z values. D) Alpha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Critical Values. 17. They are quantitative data that are characterized by not having negative numerical values A) Nominal Scale. B) Interval Scale. C) Reason Scale. D) Ordinal Scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reason Scale. 18. This is a sampling technique where samples are selected by dividing the population into groups then taking samples into groups. A) Random. B) Stratified. C) Systematic. D) Cluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cluster. 19. What do you call the graph which uses horizontal or vertical bars to represent data? A) Line Graph. B) Bar Graph. C) Pictograph. D) Pie graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bar Graph. 20. This is a misuse of statistics where a claim was used but no comparison is made. A) Implied connections. B) Detached statistics. C) Changing the subject. D) Misleading graphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Detached statistics. 21. The data shows the test scores of four different classes.Algebra:{87, 91, 64, 88, 74}Geometry:{98, 86, 84, 91, 79}Statistics:{87, 72, 84, 88, 91}Pre-Algebra:{63, 82, 78, 71, 74}Which class had the smallest interquartile range? A) Geometry. B) Algebra. C) Statistics. D) Pre-Algebra. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Statistics. 22. A teacher has been told that students like when they do activities that get them moving. She asks her students what they think? A) Survey. B) Observational Study. C) Experiment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Survey. 23. A value that is much higher or much lower than the other values in a set of data. A) Histogram. B) Box Plot. C) Outlier. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outlier. 24. What measure represent the average A) Mode. B) Median. C) Mean. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mean. 25. The number of hours you spent studying each day during the past week A) Nominal. B) Interval. C) Ratio. D) Ordinal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ratio. 26. Regarding spendature, and increase of 3% sounds a lot better than $ 6, 000, 000 when an increase is not favorbale is an example of which misuse? A) Misleading Graphs. B) Ambiguous Averages. C) Changing the Subject. D) Suspect Samples. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Changing the Subject. 27. In order to use samples to estimate something from the population, the sample should be ..... the population. A) Larger than. B) Exactly the same as. C) Representative of. D) Nothing like. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Representative of. 28. Find the mode of 25, 95, 24, 44, 51, 95, 25, 47, 95, 99, 95 A) 95. B) 24. C) 25. D) 99. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 95. 29. Statistics is used by A) Government. B) Businessmen. C) Economists. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 30. What is a sample? A) The factual information collected from a survey or other source. B) A subgroup chosen from a population. C) A tool used to collect statistical data. D) Statistics collected from an entire population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A subgroup chosen from a 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