1. A SJSU statistics instructor is interested in the median number of classes the state of California college students take. What is
the population she is interested in?
a) all SJSU College students
b) all college students in the state of California.
c) all SJSU students in her classes
d) all SJSU math students
2. The instructor later finds out the population median is 4 classes. This is an example of:
a) Parameter
b) Data
c)
Statistic
d) Variable
3. A study was done to determine the age, number of times per month local public transportation was used in Detroit. Ten city
blocks were randomly selected and all were interviewed in each block. The sampling method was:
a) simple random
b) Systematic
c) Stratified
d) Cluster
4.
Pulse rate measurements (beats per minute) were taken from 40 females (Table 1). What is the relative frequency for females with a
pulse rate of 80 to 89?
a) 20.3%
b)
27.5%
c) 30%
d) 30.2%
5.
Which quarter has the smallest spread of data?
a) Q1
b) Q2
c) Q3
d) Q4
6. You are investigating if a new diet pill really works. You will be doing a random sample of 50 patients who took the pill for
six months. Which one is the variable?
a) The number of pounds lost or gained by one patient.
b) The mean pounds lost or gained.
c) The median pounds lost or gained.
d) The pounds lost by the patients.
7. Match the different types of data.
Question 7 options:
Hair Color
Qualitative
Number of oranges per tree
Quantitative continuous
Weight of newborn babies
Quantitative discrete
8. Which chart (based on data type) would be the best to represent income of school teachers?
a) Histogram
b) Bar
c) Pareto
d) Pie
9. You take a random sample (n=2000) by calling people on their landlines at noon. You later find your sample mean is way off
the population mean. Most likely you have what type of error?
a) nonsampling error
b) random error
c) sampling bias
d) variation error
10. Match the level of measurement with its best example.
The best colleges in the U.S. from top to bottom.
Favorite make of car
Melting point of different substances.
1. Nominal scale level
2. Ordinal scale level
IQ Scores
3. Interval scale level
4. Ratio Scale
11. For the following pulse rate measurements for females what is the mean?
Pulse rates:
76
Question 11 options:
a) 62.3
b) 69.3
72
88
60
72
68
68
80
76
68
c) 71.8
d) 72.8
12. What is the mode value (as opposed to mean or median) for the following test scores?
Stem
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Leaf
3
299
355
1388999
2348
03889
0244446
0
a) 69
b) 88
c) 89
d) None of the above
13. Find the mean for the following group data:
Audit time (days)
10-14
15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
a) 16 days
b) 18 days
c)
20 days
Frequency
4
8
5
2
1
d)
22 days
14. For the following pulse rate measurements for females what is the standard deviation?
Pulse rates:
76
a) 7.7
b)
8.7
72
88
60
72
68
68
80
76
68
c) 9.7
d) 9.9
15. Find the standard deviation for the following group data:
Audit time (days)
10-14
15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
a) 4.5 days
b) 5.5 days
c) 6 days
Frequency
4
8
5
2
1
d) 6.5 days
16. You work at the HR department in an IT firm in silicon value and you need to recruit new programmers. There is a standard
math test with a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of 5. You need a score of at least 75 so out of 100 applicants about how
many on average should be qualified? Assume a bell shaped curve and symmetric distribution of scores.
a) 34 out of 100 applicants.
b) 68 out of 100 applicants.
c) 75 out of 100 applicants.
d) 84 out of 100 applicants.
17. Below are the starting salaries for business school graduates. What is the IQR value?
Graduate
1
2
3
4
5
6
Monthly Salary
2850
2950
3050
2880
2755
2710
a) 115
b) 125
c) 135
Graduate Monthly Salary
7
2890
8
3130
9
2940
10
3325
11
2920
12
2880
d) 145
18. Below are the starting salaries for business school graduates. What is the median?
Graduate
1
2
3
4
5
6
Monthly Salary
2850
2950
3050
2880
2755
2710
a) 2905
Graduate Monthly Salary
7
2890
8
3130
9
2940
10
3325
11
2920
12
2880
b) 2935
c) 2955
d) None of the above
