This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Data Interpretation > Statistics – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Statistics Quiz 5 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mark bowled 7 games last weekend. His scores are:155, 165, 138, 172, 127, 193, 142. What is the range of Mark's scores? A) 172. B) 66. C) 193. D) 127. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 66. 2. What is the meaning of statistics in plural sense? A) Statistical Enquiry. B) Statistical Methods. C) Research. D) Data. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Data. 3. Subjects were taken from a population with an equal numberof males and females. A) Simple Random Sample. B) Sample of Convenience. C) Information. D) Systematic Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple Random Sample. 4. A frequency distribution is a tabular summary of data showing the A) Percentage of items in several classes. B) Number of items in several classes. C) Relative percentage of items in several classes. D) Fraction of items in several classes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Number of items in several classes. 5. The statistic is a number describing the: A) Percent. B) Sample. C) Survey. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sample. 6. What is the mean of 3, 7, 9, 8, and 13? A) 7. B) 6. C) 8. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8. 7. Find the area under the standard normal curve where z < 2.42 . A) .992. B) .008. C) .862. D) .301. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) .992. 8. The term 'Statistics' was first used by A) Gottfried Achenwall. B) Paul A. Samuelson. C) Lord Robbins. D) J.B.Say. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gottfried Achenwall. 9. It refers to the process of making conclusions based on the presented data. A) Collection. B) Analysis. C) Interpretation. D) Organization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interpretation. 10. What is the branch of statistics that involves organizing, displaying and describing data? A) Inferential statistics. B) Health statistics. C) Sports statistics. D) Descriptive statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Descriptive statistics. 11. Identify the Sample:A restaurant wants to know if customers buy dessert when they eat out. As people leave the restaurant one evening, 20 people are surveyed at random. Eight people say they usually order dessert when they eat out. The restaurant concluded that most customers do not order dessert. A) 20 customers. B) All customers. C) 8 customers. D) Dessert. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 20 customers. 12. Political webpages often allow readers to rate whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with the President's decision on any given situation. This is a form of: A) Voluntary Response. B) Convenience Sampling. C) Stratified Random Sampling. D) Cluster Sampling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voluntary Response. 13. Which type of numerical data uses only whole numbers? A) Categorical data. B) Continuous data. C) Discrete data. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Discrete data. 14. A method of collecting information about a certain group of people by asking a question or set of questions A) Survey. B) Census. C) Population. D) Data. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Survey. 15. The indices of ( value of) scatteredness or variability A) Coefficient of correlation. B) Measure of dispersion. C) Measures of Central tendency. D) Coefficient of variation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Measure of dispersion. 16. The speed of the car was 45 mph. A) Qualitative. B) Quantitative. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantitative. 17. What is the mean? A) 36. B) 12. C) 18. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12. 18. Ethnic group categories of people in a neighborhood. A) Interval. B) Ordinal. C) Ratio. D) Nominal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nominal. 19. Complete the definition:A ..... is a subset of a population A) People. B) Statistics. C) Sample. D) Group. E) Sampel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sample. 20. Who has defined economics as "The study of man in the ordinary business of life" ? A) Adam Smith. B) Alfred Marshall. C) Lionel Robbins. D) Amartya Sen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alfred Marshall. 21. If you want to perform a quality study, you need to use the following data: A) LC = 90% Z= 1.96. B) LC = 98% Z= 1.96. C) LC = 99% Z= 2.33. D) LC = 99% Z=2.575. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) LC = 99% Z=2.575. 22. Ervin bowled 7 games last weekend. His scores are:155, 165, 138, 172, 127, 193, 142. What is the range of Ervin's scores? A) 66. B) 193. C) 60. D) 127. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 66. 23. Marcos wants to find out how many students at his school like to go to the movies. Which survey method is likely to produce a representative survey? A) Ask the boys in the boys locker room. B) Ask half of the 34 students on the soccer team. C) Ask students coming out of a movie theater. D) Ask the 25 students in his homeroom class. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ask the 25 students in his homeroom class. 24. What does the standard deviation tell us about the data set? A) How spread out the numbers are. B) How much each number in the data set increases by. C) How much each number in the data set decreases by. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How spread out the numbers are. 25. According to ....., "Economics is the science of wealth" A) Adam Smith. B) Alfred Marshall. C) Prof. Samuelson. D) Lionel Robbins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adam Smith. 26. A range of values where the true value will most likely fall A) Precision. B) Point Estimate. C) Interval Estimate. D) Accuracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interval Estimate. 27. How does statistics help in economic planning A) Helps to make best use of national resources. B) Helps compare development of various countries. C) All of these. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of these. 28. Study the data set shown. 15, 14, 19, 16, 22, 20, 17, 20, 29, 21, 18 Which statement is true about this set of data? A) The range is 3. B) The median is 18.5. C) The range is 20. D) The median is 19. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The median is 19. 29. If the mean of five observations x, x + 2, x + 4, x + 6, x + 8 is 11, then the mean of first three observations is A) 15. B) 11. C) 13. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 9. 30. Sum of data points divided by the number of data points. A) Finding the Median. B) Finding the Mode. C) Finding the Mean. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Finding the Mean. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesStatistics Quiz 1Statistics Quiz 2Statistics Quiz 3Statistics Quiz 4Statistics Quiz 6Statistics Quiz 7Statistics Quiz 8Statistics Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books