This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Data Interpretation > Statistics – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Statistics Quiz 22 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When experimenting with the growth of a plant, a scientist uses three (of the same type of) plants, two different fertilizers, equal light, and equal water. What type of variable is the fertilizer? A) Control. B) Compound. C) Dependent. D) Independent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Independent. 2. Second quartile is known as ..... A) Median. B) Harmonic mean. C) Mode. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Median. 3. In plural sense statistics deals with A) Qualitative data only. B) Quantitative data only. C) Both Qualitative & Quantitative data. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantitative data only. 4. Which question is a statistical question? A) How many students in a class of 24 have blue eyes if 1/4 of the students' eyes are blue?. B) What are the chances that a child of blue-eyed parents will have brown eyes?. C) What color are the eyes of your family members?. D) What color are my eyes?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What color are the eyes of your family members?. 5. What is a characteristic of a population? A) Parameter. B) Statistic. C) Unit. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parameter. 6. Our data come from ....., but we really care most about ..... A) Subjective methods; objective methods. B) Samples; populations. C) Theories; mathematical models. D) Populations; samples. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Samples; populations. 7. Use the following information and the Empirical Rule to estimate the answer.The ages of golfers are normally distributed, with a mean of 38 and a standard deviation of 4.There are 500 golf members at the Mathy Country Club. How many are younger than 34? A) 16. B) 100. C) 150. D) 80. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 80. 8. The most appropriate method to select a measuring tool (Test) is: A) Characteristics of population. B) Validity and reliability of test. C) Researcher's area of Interest. D) Purpose of the research. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Validity and reliability of test. 9. What is the Mode of the following data? 27, 12, 5, 1, 19 A) 0. B) No mode. C) 27. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No mode. 10. Statistics is ..... A) ..the collection and interpretation of data. B) ..the collection and representation of data. C) ..the investigation and utilization of data. D) The investigation and representation of data. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ..the collection and interpretation of data. 11. A graph that uses vertical or horizontal bars to show comparisons among two or more items. A) Bar Graph. B) Box Plot. C) Numerical Data. D) Categorical graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bar Graph. 12. Claims that attempt to imply connections between variables that may not actually exist, like "eating fish MAY HELP to reduce your cholesterol" , is which type of misuse? A) Implied Connections. B) Misleading Graphs. C) Detached Statistics. D) Suspect Samples. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implied Connections. 13. Ranking system is part of which classification? A) Nominal. B) Interval. C) Ratio. D) Ordinal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ordinal. 14. What is a survey? A) Process of collecting statistical data from a small group of a population. B) Statistics collected from an entire population. C) An element or feature that can vary. D) A person chosen from a population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Process of collecting statistical data from a small group of a population. 15. A branch of science which deals with the collection, organization, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data A) Chemistry. B) Geometry. C) Biology. D) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Statistics. 16. What's the rounding rule for the interval estimate of the mean using raw data? A) Round off to the same number of decimal places as given for the mean. B) Round off to one or more decimal place/s than the number of decimal places in the raw data. C) 3 decimal places. D) Round up to the next whole number. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Round off to one or more decimal place/s than the number of decimal places in the raw data. 17. Which of the following symbols denotes margin of error? A) S. B) E. C) X. D) T. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) E. 18. A sample that is by chance . A) Random sample. B) Stratified sample. C) Systematic sample. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Random sample. 19. A farmer puts fertilizer on half his corn plans and no fertilizer on the other half. He determines which half produced more corn at the end of the season. A) Survey. B) Observational Study. C) Experiment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Experiment. 20. It is a type of data that can be expressed in numbers. A) Statistical question. B) Numerical data set. C) Statistics. D) Number Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Numerical data set. 21. The wickets taken by a bowler in 10 cricket matches are as follows:2, 6, 4, 5, 0, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3 Find the mode of the data A) 2. B) 4. C) 5. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 22. Marital status, beauty and quality are examples of a ..... A) Quantitative Data. B) Discrete Data. C) Continuous Data. D) Qualitative Data. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Qualitative Data. 23. Categorical variables are separated into ..... A) Ordinal and nominal. B) Discrete and continuous. C) Discrete and nominal. D) Ordinal and continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ordinal and nominal. 24. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is used for: A) Prediction. B) Normal distribution. C) Parametric statistics. D) Non parametric statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Normal distribution. 25. A statistic is ..... A) A planned activity whose results yield a set of data. B) A numerical value that summarizes all of the data of an entire population. C) The set of values collected from the variable from each of the elements that belong to the sample. D) A numerical value summarizing the sample data. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A numerical value summarizing the sample data. 26. When a data point is higher than its neighboring data points. A) Gap. B) Symmetry. C) Cluster. D) Peak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peak. 27. Qualitative data is which A) Can be quantified. B) Can not be quantified. C) None. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can not be quantified. 28. Which of the following is the FIRST step of a hypothesis test? A) State your null & alternative hypotheses. B) State your conclusion. C) Check assumptions & conditions. D) Find your test statistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) State your null & alternative hypotheses. 29. A test is given that has a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 13. If a student's Z-score is +1, the student's score before conversion was: A) 70. B) Cannot be determined from the information given. C) 57. D) 83. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 83. 30. Small, medium and large measures to give the size of an object are ..... A) Reason Scale. B) Nominal Scale. C) Interval Scale. D) Ordinal Scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ordinal Scale. ← 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