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I. Multiple Choices. Identify The Choice That Best Complete The Statement or Answers The Question
I. Multiple Choices. Identify The Choice That Best Complete The Statement or Answers The Question
I. Multiple Choices.
Identify the choice that best complete the statement or answers the question.
Encircle the letter that corresponds to the correct answer.
Problem # 1-2. A survey will be given to 100 students randomly selected from the freshmen class at
Ripang High School.
1. What is the population?
a.the 100 selected students c. all students at Ripang High School
b. all freshmen at Ripang High School* d. none of the above
2. What is the sample?
a.the 100 selected students * c. all students at Ripang High School
b. all freshmen at Ripang High School d. none of the above
3. A mean is known as a statistic if it is computed from the _________.
a. parameter b. population c. sample* d. estimation
4. The difference between s and σ is that ______.
a. s is for a sample and σ is for a population*
b. s is for a population and σ is for a sample
c. s is a parameter and σ is not
d. none of the above
5. When n ≥ 30 and the population standard deviation is known, what is the appropriate distribution?
a. z b. t c. p d. r
6. In a t distribution, the critical values are based on:
a. n b. z c. t d. df
7. When X = 50 and n = 215, what is the value of p?
a. 0.23 b. 4.3 c. 50 d. 215
8. What do you call a process involved in making conclusions about population values?
a. Estimating parameters c. Hypothesis testing
b.Inferential statistics d. descriptive statistics
9. Which of the following represents the central value of a set of data?
a. variance b.average c. proportiond d. standard deviation
10. what do we call the probability that a parameter is contained in a range of values?
a.Confidence limits b. Confidence level c. confidence coefficient d. confidence interval
II. Calculate the z and p-value for each of the following. Then write the decision rule, the comparison
statement and the corresponding decision in the following table.
Student code A B C D E F