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WGU - C207 Exam Questions And Answers
2025 Update.
Analytics - Answer✔For companies to attract and retain their best customers they need a
complete portrait of who they are. To develop this portrait companies turn to...
Prescriptive Analytics - Answer✔A manufacturer wants to maximize their factory output while
specifically minimizing labor costs. What type of analytics might they employ to achieve this
goal?
Systematic - Answer✔What type of data error that occurs in measurement is constant within a
data set and is sometimes caused by faulty equipment or bias?
Measurement - Answer✔An Educator develops a new standardized test to measure math skills
of ninth graders. She has students in her home state of Ohio take the test. If the test is to be
used on a national level, what type of error might be found in her data?
Omission - Answer✔A city government is trying to determine the national origins of its recent
immigrant population. If a survey of the immigrant population is conducted in English what
type of error might be present in the data?
It can be analyzed with traditional spreadsheets - Answer✔The use of Big Data is increasingly
important to businesses in competitive markets. Which of the following characteristics is not
true of big data?
Determine the scope of the problem
Review of previous findings - Answer✔The Davenport-Kim three-stage model consists of
framing the problem, solving the problem, and communicating results. Which two of the
following are part of framing the problem stage?
Treatment procedures
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Experimental response - Answer✔A healthcare provider is researching blood glucose levels
before and after exercising. What two elements should be part of any experimental study such
as this?
Ratio - Answer✔Runners cover 26.2 miles in the Olympics marathon. What level of
measurement is this?
Nominal - Answer✔What level of measurement is the type of cars produced in Ford Factory?
Ordinal - Answer✔What level of measurement is this the 10 best cities in the U.S. to retire in?
Interval - Answer✔What level of measurement are women's dress sizes (2,4,6, etc.)?
Double Blind Study - Answer✔A local school board is studying the impact of a proposed change
in testing on math scores. Bias can be introduced into the study by both students and teachers.
Which research technique would eliminate this type of bias?
The experimental unit - Answer✔A Company's product development team test 3 new car waxes
by waxing 5 cars with each wax and then running them through a car wash. They then record
number of washes it takes before the wax begins to deteriorate. What is the term for the five
cars?
Association and Causation - Answer✔An online retailer selling workout apparel has a large
increase in sales during December and declares that their weekly newspaper ad resulted in
higher sales. What misuse of statistics may the retailer have used in making this decision?
Not a representative sample - Answer✔An educator collects eighth grade math scores from a
local school and used this data to recommend curriculum changes for grades 8 - 12. What
misuse of statistics may the educator have used in making this recommendation?
Median - Answer✔An economist wishes to study the distribution of household income in a
Midwestern city. He randomly selects a sample from 12 households. He notices two large
incomes in his sample. Which measure best represents the middle of the incomes?
Multiplication/Intersection - Answer✔A cable company offers its customers both cable
television and internet. What statistical rule should be used to determine the probability that
customers will have both cable television and internet?
Bayes Theorem - Answer✔A department store is considering a new credit policy to reduce
defaults on payments. Its records show that 95% of defaults have at least 2 late payments. Also,
3% of all customers default and 30% of those customers who have not defaulted have a least 2
late payments. What statistical rule should be used to find the probability that a customer will
default given that at least 2 payments were late?
z-score - Answer✔Based on quality checks at plastic bags manufacturer, the breaking strength
of their bags has a mean of 50.5 and a standard deviation of 1.6. A customer's test of the bags
finds bag strength of 54.2 or less. Which statistical measure should be used to help determine
the probability of the customer's test occurring?
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WGU - C207 Exam Questions And Answers
2025 Update.
Analytics - Answer✔For companies to attract and retain their best customers they need a
complete portrait of who they are. To develop this portrait companies turn to...
Prescriptive Analytics - Answer✔A manufacturer wants to maximize their factory output while
specifically minimizing labor costs. What type of analytics might they employ to achieve this
goal?
Systematic - Answer✔What type of data error that occurs in measurement is constant within a
data set and is sometimes caused by faulty equipment or bias?
Measurement - Answer✔An Educator develops a new standardized test to measure math skills
of ninth graders. She has students in her home state of Ohio take the test. If the test is to be
used on a national level, what type of error might be found in her data?
Omission - Answer✔A city government is trying to determine the national origins of its recent
immigrant population. If a survey of the immigrant population is conducted in English what
type of error might be present in the data?
It can be analyzed with traditional spreadsheets - Answer✔The use of Big Data is increasingly
important to businesses in competitive markets. Which of the following characteristics is not
true of big data?
Determine the scope of the problem
Review of previous findings - Answer✔The Davenport-Kim three-stage model consists of
framing the problem, solving the problem, and communicating results. Which two of the
following are part of framing the problem stage?
Treatment procedures
1
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Experimental response - Answer✔A healthcare provider is researching blood glucose levels
before and after exercising. What two elements should be part of any experimental study such
as this?
Ratio - Answer✔Runners cover 26.2 miles in the Olympics marathon. What level of
measurement is this?
Nominal - Answer✔What level of measurement is the type of cars produced in Ford Factory?
Ordinal - Answer✔What level of measurement is this the 10 best cities in the U.S. to retire in?
Interval - Answer✔What level of measurement are women's dress sizes (2,4,6, etc.)?
Double Blind Study - Answer✔A local school board is studying the impact of a proposed change
in testing on math scores. Bias can be introduced into the study by both students and teachers.
Which research technique would eliminate this type of bias?
The experimental unit - Answer✔A Company's product development team test 3 new car waxes
by waxing 5 cars with each wax and then running them through a car wash. They then record
number of washes it takes before the wax begins to deteriorate. What is the term for the five
cars?
Association and Causation - Answer✔An online retailer selling workout apparel has a large
increase in sales during December and declares that their weekly newspaper ad resulted in
higher sales. What misuse of statistics may the retailer have used in making this decision?
Not a representative sample - Answer✔An educator collects eighth grade math scores from a
local school and used this data to recommend curriculum changes for grades 8 - 12. What
misuse of statistics may the educator have used in making this recommendation?
Median - Answer✔An economist wishes to study the distribution of household income in a
Midwestern city. He randomly selects a sample from 12 households. He notices two large
incomes in his sample. Which measure best represents the middle of the incomes?
Multiplication/Intersection - Answer✔A cable company offers its customers both cable
television and internet. What statistical rule should be used to determine the probability that
customers will have both cable television and internet?
Bayes Theorem - Answer✔A department store is considering a new credit policy to reduce
defaults on payments. Its records show that 95% of defaults have at least 2 late payments. Also,
3% of all customers default and 30% of those customers who have not defaulted have a least 2
late payments. What statistical rule should be used to find the probability that a customer will
default given that at least 2 payments were late?
z-score - Answer✔Based on quality checks at plastic bags manufacturer, the breaking strength
of their bags has a mean of 50.5 and a standard deviation of 1.6. A customer's test of the bags
finds bag strength of 54.2 or less. Which statistical measure should be used to help determine
the probability of the customer's test occurring?
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