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A. Indicate which of the following situations involve descriptive statistics and which involve inferential
statistics:

1. An annual stockholders’ report details the assets of the corporation.

2. A Humanities instructor tells his class the number of students who received an A on a recent
exam.

3. The mean of a sample set of scores is calculated to characterize the sample.

4. The sample data from a poll are used to estimate the opinion of the population.

5. A correlational study is conducted on a sample to determine whether educational level and

income in the population are related.

6. A newspaper article reports the average salaries of federal employees from data collected on all
federal employees.

7. The last four semesters the instructor taught Intermediate Algebra, an average of 15 people
passed the class.

8. The next time the instructor teaches Intermediate Algebra, we can expect approximately 15
people to pass the class.

9. This instructor will never pass more than 20 people in an Intermediate Algebra class.

10. The last four semesters the instructor taught Intermediate Algebra, no more than 20 people passed
the class.
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A. Identify each of the following as qualitative or numerical variables:

1. The temperature in Barrow, Alaska at 12:00 pm on any given day.

2. The make of automobile driven by each faculty member.

3. Whether or not a 6-volt lantern battery is defective.

4. The weight of a lead pencil.

5. The length of time billed for a long-distance telephone call.

6. The brand of cereal children eats for breakfast.

7. The type of book taken out of the library by an adult.

8. Name of Internet service provider

9. Time in hours spent surfing the Internet per week

10. Number of text messages sent in a week

11. Number of online purchases made in a month

12. Whether the individual has a Facebook profile

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A. Answer the following questions.

1. Is a football jersey number a quantitative or qualitative variable? Support your answer.

2. A new department store is getting ready to open. The store owner wants two know…

a) Two qualitative variables about its customers that he might find helpful.

b) Two quantitative variables about its customers that he might find helpful.

3. Explain why the variable “score” for the home team at a basketball game is discrete.

4. Explain why the variable “number of minutes to drive to school” is continuous.

5. Which of the following statements are true?

I. All variables can be classified as quantitative or categorical variables.
II. Categorical variables can be continuous variables.
III. Quantitative variables can be discrete variables.
a) I only
b) II only
c) III only
d) I and II
e) I and III

C. Classify each set of data as discrete or continuous.

1. The number of suitcases lost by an airline.
2. The height of corn plants.
3. The number of ears of corn produced.
4. The number of green M&M's in a bag.
5. The time it takes for a car battery to die.