A store manager counts the number of customers who make a purchase in his store each day.

The
data are as follows. 10 11 8 14 7 10 10 11 8 7
B

An athlete runs 100 meters in 10.7 seconds

B. Continuous

At one hospital in 1992, 674 women were diagnosed with breast cancer. Five years later, 88% of
the Caucasian women and 83% of the African American women were still alive.

2. Observational study

The following table gives the top five movies at the box office this week.

Rank Last week Movie title Studio Box office sales ($ millions)

1 N/A Pirate Adventure Movie Giant 35.2

2 2 Secret Agent Files G.M.G. 19.5

3 1 Epic Super Hero Team 21st Century 14.3

Movie Giant
Dreamboat
4 5 Reptile Ride 10.1

5 4 Must Love Cats 9.9

What kind of data is provided by the information in the fourth column?

Select one:
 A. Qualitative

A variable whose possible values are 1.15, 1.20, 1.25, 1.30, 1.35, 1.40, 1.45, 1.50, 1.55, 1.60, is a
continuous variable

False

A meteorologist constructs a graph showing the total precipitation in Phoenix, Arizona in each of the
months of 1998. Does this involve descriptive statistics or inferential statistics?

Select one:

1. Descriptive
George, a network engineer, ordered 600 CAT 5e Ethernet cables for use at his company's network.
After receiving these cables, he decided to randomly test 180 of these cables before using them. He
was alarmed to find out that 88% of these cables failed completely. He returned the entire lot to the
manufacturer. When he tested the cables, what was George's sample?

2. 180 cables

The following data represent the number of cars passing through a toll booth during a certain time
period over a number of days. 38 39 37 37 44 38 41 38 39 35 42 39 43 37 41

The data in the following table represent heights of students at a highschool. Find the value of the
missing entry.

0.20

Find the mean for the given sample data. Unless otherwise specified, round your answer to one
more decimal place than that used for the observations.

16, 13, 8, 14, 6, 4, 6

Select one:

A. 9.6

Find the median for the given sample data.

8, 3, 25, 11, 49, 43, 42

C. 25

Find the mode(s) for the given sample data.

86, 62, 32, 62, 29, 86

B. 86, 62

An education researcher randomly selects 38 schools from one school district and interviews all the
teachers at each of the 38 schools. Identify the type of sampling used in this example.

Select one:

1. Cluster sampling

The members of a board of directors have the following roles: president (P), vice president (V),
secretary (S), treasury (T), and fundraiser (F). Consider these board members to be a population of
interest. List the 10 possible samples (without replacement) of size two from this population of five
board members.

2. P,V P,S P,T P,F V,S V,T V,F S,T S,F T,F

The table below shows the total number of births in the U.S. and the birth rate per 1,000 population
in each of the years 1990-1994.

Year Births Birth Rate

 1990 4,158,512 16.7

1991 4,110,907 16.3

1992 4,065,014 15.9

1993 4,000,240 15.5

1994 3,979,000 15.3

Classify the study as either descriptive or inferential.

Select one:

1. Descriptive

The blood types for 40 people who agreed to participate in a medical study were as follows.
O A A O O AB O B A O
A O A B O O O AB A A
A B O A A O O B O O
O A O O A B O O A AB
Construct a frequency distribution for the data.

The table shows the country represented by the winner of the 10,000 meter run in the Summer
Olympic Games in various years.
Year Country

1912 Finland

1920 Finland

1924 Finland

1928 Finland

1932 Poland

1936 Finland

1948 Czechoslovakia

1952 Czechoslovakia

1956 USSR

1960 USSR

1964 United States

1968 Kenya

1972 Finland
1976 Finland

1980 Ethiopia

1984 Italy

1988 Morocco

1992 Morocco

A) B)

Country Frequency Country Frequency

Finland 7 Finland 7

Poland 1 Poland 1

Czechoslovakia 2 Czechoslovakia 2

USSR 2 USSR 2

United States 1 United States 1

Kenya 1 Kenya 1
 France 1 Ethiopia 1

Ethiopia 1 Italy 1

Italy 1 Morocco 2

Morocco 2

C) D)

Country Frequency Country Frequency

Finland 6 Finland 7

Poland 1 Poland 1

Czechoslovakia 2 Czechoslovakia 2

USSR 2 USSR 2

United States 1 United States 1

Kenya 1 Ethiopia 1

Ethiopia 1 Italy 1
 Italy 1 Morocco 2

Morocco 2

Select one:

True or false? For any discrete random variable, the possible values of the random variable form a
finite set of numbers.

False

Suppose that D is a random variable. Given that P(D > 2.4) = 0.35, find P(D ≤ 2.4).

D. 0.65

Dave drives to work each morning at about the same time. His commute time is normally distributed
with a mean of 45 minutes and a standard deviation of 5 minutes. The percentage of time that his
commute time exceeds 55 minutes is equal to the area under the standard normal curve that lies to
the ___ of ___.
 C. right, 2

Find the z-score for which the area under the standard normal curve to its left is 0.40

A. -0.25

A college statistics professor has office hours from 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. daily. A sample of
waiting times to see the professor (in minutes) is 10, 12, 20, 15, 17, 10, 30, 28, 35, 28, 19, 27, 25,
22, 33, 37, 14, 21, 20, 23. Assuming σ = 7.84, find the 99.74% confidence interval for the population
mean.

C. 18.8 to 25.8 minutes

Use a table of areas to find the specified area under the standard normal curve.The area that lies to
the left of 1.13

A. 0.8708

When a balanced die is rolled, the probability that the number that comes up will be a one is 1/6.

This means that if the die is rolled 36 times, a one will show up six times.

False

Which of the following could not possibly be probabilities?

A. -0.04

B. 10/7

C. 0

D. 0.20

B. A and B
A curve has area 0.276 to the left of 5 and area 0.627 to the right of 5. Could this curve be a density
curve for some variable?

No