Review Exam
A sample is the entire group of individuals or items being studied. True or False - Correct Answers: False
The width of the class, can be determined by subtracting the lower limit of of a class from the lower limit
of the next higher class. True or False - Correct Answers: True - we use the upper limit minus the lower
limit. The upper limit of a class will be the lower limit of the next class.
A data list will always have exactly one mean and exactly one mode. True or False - Correct Answers:
False
The quartiles divide data sets into four equal parts. True or False - Correct Answers: True
To convert a frequency distribution to a relative frequency distributions, divide each class frequency by
the sum of the class frequencies. True or False - Correct Answers: True
A left skewed distribution is not symmetrical and the long tail is to the right. True or False - Correct
Answers: False
A parameter is a measurable characteristic of a sample. True or False - Correct Answers: False
Extremely high or low values affect the value of the median and mode. True or False - Correct Answers:
False
For any distribution, there are an equal number of values above the mean and below it. True or False -
Correct Answers: False
The sample variance is roughly the mean of the sum of the squared differences between each
observation and the median. True or False. - Correct Answers: False
, A data set has 80 observations. Using the 2 to the K rule, what is the number classes? - Correct Answers:
7 -- 2^7 is the first value that is above 80. 2^6 is only 64.
A ---- is a bar graph in which the height of each rectangle is the frequency or relative frequency of the
class/category. The width of each rectangle is the same, and the rectangles do not touch each other. -
Correct Answers: Bar Chart
After constructing any frequency distribution for a sample, what should be the sum of the frequencies. -
Correct Answers: Sample size
Which information can you obtain from a box plot but not from histogram? - Correct Answers: Largest
and smallest values
A group of 100 students were surveyed about their interest in a new International Studies program.
Interest was measured in terms of high, medium, or low. 30 students responded high interest; 50
students responded medium interest, 20% students responded low interest. What is the type of the
variable interest? - Correct Answers: Ordinal
A histogram of a dataset indicates that the distribution of the data is skewed left, which measure of
central tendency will likely be smaller, the mean or the median? - Correct Answers: Mean
Find the sample standard deviation based on the following report from StatCrunch -- Variance is
4824.77278 - Correct Answers: The sample standard deviation is the square root of the variance which
would be 69.46
The lifetime (in weeks) of a certain type of lightbulb is approximately bell-shaped, with mean 252 and
standard deviation of 8. If one lightbulb from this distribution has a z-scores of +3, what is its lifetime? -
Correct Answers: -2 and +1
The lifetime (in weeks) of a certain type of lightbulb is approximately bell-shaped, with mean 252 and
standard deviation of 8. By using Empirical Rule, what percent of lightbulb has its lifetime between 236
and 260? - Correct Answers: 81.5%