Statistics Quiz 17 (30 MCQs)

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1. Quantitative variables are separated into .....
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 .....
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?
4. Basic economic activities
5. Kim surveys 100 moviegoers that entered the movie theater in the first hour. What type of sampling method is this?
6. Who expressed the View that "Economics is neutral between ends" ?
7. Part of the entire group being surveyed.
8. What is another name for average
9. How do you find the range?
10. Which economist is known as the "Father of modern economics" ?
11. An assertion that a parameter in a statistical model takes a particular value, and is assumed true until experimental evidence suggest otherwise?
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?
13. Classify.The numbers of cheeseburgers a fast-food restaurant serves each day
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?
15. Weight (in grams) of tomatoes at a grocery store is what type of variable?
16. Corresponding z-values of the confidence level
17. They are quantitative data that are characterized by not having negative numerical values
18. This is a sampling technique where samples are selected by dividing the population into groups then taking samples into groups.
19. What do you call the graph which uses horizontal or vertical bars to represent data?
20. This is a misuse of statistics where a claim was used but no comparison is made.
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?
22. A teacher has been told that students like when they do activities that get them moving. She asks her students what they think?
23. A value that is much higher or much lower than the other values in a set of data.
24. What measure represent the average
25. The number of hours you spent studying each day during the past week
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?
27. In order to use samples to estimate something from the population, the sample should be ..... the population.
28. Find the mode of 25, 95, 24, 44, 51, 95, 25, 47, 95, 99, 95
29. Statistics is used by
30. What is a sample?