BANA CH.1 QUIZ QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Arthur Benjamin says that the current top of the pyramid of mathematics curriculum is -
Answer -calculus
Arthur Benjamin says that the top of the pyramid of mathematics curriculum should be -
Answer -statistics
The New York Times article provides information about Carrie Grimes who received a
doctorate in statistics from Stanford. After graduation Ms. Grimes joined - Answer -
google
The company identified in Chapter 1, Statistics in Practice, is - Answer -Bloomberg
Businessweek
The Statistics in Practice example in Chapter 1 concerned - Answer -customer
demographics & behaviors
Chapter 1 focuses on - Answer -data and statistics
The entities on which data are collected are - Answer -elements
The set of measurements collected for a particular element is (are) called - Answer -an
observation
In a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their sex as male or female. Sex is
an example of the - Answer -nominal scale
Some hotels ask their guests to rate the hotel's services as excellent, very good, good,
and poor. This is an example of the - Answer -ordinal scale
The data measured on ordinal scale exhibits all the properties of data measured on -
Answer -nominal scale
Temperature is an example of a variable that uses - Answer -interval scale
categorical data - Answer -may be either numeric or nonnumeric
Quantitative data refers to data obtained with - Answer -either interval or ratio scale
The weight of a candy bar in ounces is an example of - Answer -quantitative data
Social security numbers consist of numeric values. Therefore, social security is an
example of - Answer -a categorical value
Arthur Benjamin says that the current top of the pyramid of mathematics curriculum is -
Answer -calculus
Arthur Benjamin says that the top of the pyramid of mathematics curriculum should be -
Answer -statistics
The New York Times article provides information about Carrie Grimes who received a
doctorate in statistics from Stanford. After graduation Ms. Grimes joined - Answer -
The company identified in Chapter 1, Statistics in Practice, is - Answer -Bloomberg
Businessweek
The Statistics in Practice example in Chapter 1 concerned - Answer -customer
demographics & behaviors
Chapter 1 focuses on - Answer -data and statistics
The entities on which data are collected are - Answer -elements
The set of measurements collected for a particular element is (are) called - Answer -an
observation
In a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their sex as male or female. Sex is
an example of the - Answer -nominal scale
Some hotels ask their guests to rate the hotel's services as excellent, very good, good,
and poor. This is an example of the - Answer -ordinal scale
The data measured on ordinal scale exhibits all the properties of data measured on -
Answer -nominal scale
Temperature is an example of a variable that uses - Answer -interval scale
categorical data - Answer -may be either numeric or nonnumeric
Quantitative data refers to data obtained with - Answer -either interval or ratio scale
The weight of a candy bar in ounces is an example of - Answer -quantitative data
Social security numbers consist of numeric values. Therefore, social security is an
example of - Answer -a categorical value
