Measure Of Standard Deviation Quiz 1 (13 MCQs)

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1. What is the variance for the sample data set given below?{ 5, 10, 7, 12, 0, 20, 15, 22, 8, 2 }
2. What is the standard deviation for the data set given below? Data comes from a population .{ 5, 10, 7, 12, 0, 20, 15, 22, 8, 2 }
3. The Sleep Shop conducted a survey to determine the average number of hours that people sleep at night. The results are shown here.# of Hours Spend Sleeping at Night Frequency 4 1 5 2 6 37 6 8 109 410 2Find the range, the sample variance, and the sample standard deviation.
4. What is an advantage of using the range as a measure of variation?
5. The number of calories in a 1-ounce serving of ten popular breakfast cereals is shown below.Apple Jacks-116 Cap'n Crunch-119Cheerios-106 Life-104Rice Krispies-110 Froot Loops-113Kellogg's Corn Flakes-101 Kellogg's Raisin Bran-89Lucky Charms-106 Trix 110Find the range, sample variance, and sample standard deviation of the data.
6. Standard deviation is always the ..... of variance.
7. The term "snowstorms of note" applies to all snowfalls over 6 inches. The snowfall amounts forsnowstorms of note in Utica, New York, over a four-year period are as follows:7.1, 9.2, 8.0, 6.1, 14.4, 8.5, 6.1, 6.8, 7.7, 21.5, 6.7, 9.0, 8.4, 7.0, 11.5, 14.1, 9.5, 8.6What are the mean and population standard deviation for these data, to the nearest hundredth?
8. Calculate the range of the following:2, 5, 8, 3, 13, 5
9. If the variance of a data set is 64, what is its standard deviation?
10. What is the Normal Range of the annual precipitation for Phoenix, if the average is 29 with a standard deviation of 3?
11. The Marathon Walk for World Peace has a 25-mile route. A random sample of participants walked the distances shown. Find the variance and standard deviation.Distance (miles) Number of Walkers 1-5 14 6-10 9 11-15 1116-20 1021-25 6
12. Find the range.12, 5, 9, 18, 22, 25, 5
13. This is used to describe the distribution of the data