Test Bank in Conjunction with Fundamentals of Business Statistics,Anderson,5e,International

CHAPTER 1—DATA AND STATISTICS




MULTIPLE CHOICE



1. In a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their gender as male or female. Gender is
an example of the

a. ordinal scale

b. nominal scale

c. ratio scale

d. interval scale

ANS: B PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



2. The nominal scale of measurement has the properties of the

a. ordinal scale

b. only interval scale

c. ratio scale

d. None of these alternatives is correct.

ANS: D PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



3. The scale of measurement that is used to rank order the observation for a variable is called
the

a. ratio scale

b. ordinal scale

c. nominal scale

d. interval scale

, ANS: B PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



4. Some hotels ask their guests to rate the hotel's services as excellent, very good, good, and
poor. This is an example of the

a. ordinal scale

b. ratio scale

c. nominal scale

d. interval scale

ANS: A PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



5. The ordinal scale of measurement has the properties of the

a. ratio scale

b. interval scale

c. nominal scale

d. ratio and interval scales

ANS: C PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



6. The ratio scale of measurement has the properties of

a. only the ordinal scale

b. only the nominal scale

c. the rank scale

d. the interval scale

ANS: D PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics

7. Temperature is an example of a variable that uses

a. the ratio scale

, b. the interval scale

c. the ordinal scale

d. either the ratio or the ordinal scale

ANS: B PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



8. The interval scale of measurement has the properties of the

a. ratio and nominal scales

b. ratio and ordinal scales

c. ratio scale

d. None of these alternatives is correct.

ANS: D PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



9. Arithmetic operations are inappropriate for

a. the ratio scale

b. the interval scale

c. both the ratio and interval scales

d. the nominal scale

ANS: D PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



10. Income is an example of a variable that uses the

a. ratio scale

b. interval scale

c. nominal scale

d. ordinal scale

ANS: A PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics

, 11. Data obtained from a nominal scale

a. must be alphabetic

b. can be either numeric or nonnumeric

c. must be numeric

d. must rank order the data

ANS: B PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



12. The scale of measurement that has an inherent zero value defined is the

a. ratio scale

b. nominal scale

c. ordinal scale

d. interval scale

ANS: A PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics



13. Arithmetic operations are appropriate for

a. only the ratio scale

b. only the interval scale

c. the nominal scale

d. None of these alternatives is correct.

ANS: D PTS: 1 TOP: Descriptive Statistics

14. Quantitative data refers to data obtained with a(n)

a. ordinal scale

b. nominal scale

c. either interval or ratio scale