STATISTICS

 1. 4. A high school teacher at a small private school assigns trigonometry practice problems to be worked via the net. Students
must use a password to access the problems and the time of log-in and log-off are automatically recorded for the teacher. At the
Points: end of the week, the teacher examines the amount of time each student spent working the assigned problems. The data is
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provided below in minutes. Find the variance.
X X2
49 2401
48 2304
43 1849
39 1521
34 1156
33 1089
28 784
27 729
25 625
25 625
22 484
22 484
22 484
20 400
15 225
452 15160

c. 109.98095 
b.109.56872 
d.108.5678945
a.108.98567

 2. 9. Find the first and third quartiles of the set {3, 7, 8, 5, 12, 14, 21, 15, 18, 14}.

Points: c. Q1 = 7; Q3 = 15 
2/2 b. . Q1 = 12; Q3 = 18
a. . Q1 = 3; Q3 = 14
d. . Q1 = 5; Q3 = 15
 3. 2. Midterm exam scores for a small advanced neuro anatomy class are provided below. Scores represent percent of items
marked correct on the exam. Find the range.
Points:
0/2 X X2
99 9801
94 8836
93 8649
88 7744
87 7569
87 7569
87 7569
75 5625
75 5625
35 1225
820 70212

b.94
d.54 
c.64 
a.84

 4. 3. A group committed to quality television has been concerned about a new talk show. For two weeks, they decide to count the
number of words that must be "bleeped" as too obscene for television and the number of physical altercations. They hope that
Points: after recording this data that they will be able to argue that the show is inappropriate for television particularly during the day. The
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data for number of words censored is provided below. Find the Standard deviation.
X X2
349 121801
342 116964
321 103041
289 83521
267 71289
254 64516
166 27556
157 24649
132 17424
33 1089
2310 631850

b. 304.55676
a. 104.47754 
c. 124.35678
d. 234.56982
 5. 10. Learn how to calculate percentile for the given example: There are 25 test scores such as: 72,54, 56, 61, 62, 66, 68, 43, 69,
69, 70, 71,77, 78, 79, 85, 87, 88, 89, 93, 95, 96, 98, 99, 99. Find the 60th percentile?
Points:
0/2 b.88 
c.95
a.77
d. 82 

 6. 1. The number of incorrect answers on a true-false competency test for a random sample of 15 students were recorded as
follows: 2, 1, 3, 0, 1, 3, 6, 0, 3, 3, 5, 2, 1, 4, and 2. Find the median.
Points:
0/2 a. 1.2
c. 4.4 
d. 6.5
b. 2.4 

 7. 8. A mutual fund achieved the following rates of growth over an 11-month period:

Points: {3% 2% 7% 8% 2% 4% 3% 7.5% 7.2% 2.7% 2.09%}

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Determine the 5th decile from the data.
d. 8% 
c. 2%
a.4%
b. 3% 

 8. 5. Consider the following data set:

Points: Compute the mean.

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69, 40, 32, 74, 54, 47, 80, 25, 60, 69, 44, 67, 72, 35, 51, 82, 46, 200, 66, 27, 50, 70, 38, 85, 66, 81, 30, 68, 42, 78
c.79.56
d.45.87 
b.71.58
a.61.60 

 9. 7. Find the percentile rank of 87 in the following set of 30 marks: 56, 65, 65, 67, 72, 73, 75, 77, 77, 78, 78, 78, 80, 80, 80, 82,
83, 85, 85, 85, 86, 87, 87, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95, 98
Points:
0/2 a.78 
b.87 
c.88
d.77

 10. 6. Given the following sample data set:

Points: 6, 12, 9, 7, 8, 4, 3, 12, 15

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What is the mode?
d.9 
b.12 
c.4
a.15