Assignment

6) Referring to Scenario 1-1, the possible responses to the

question "What is your age at last
birthday?" result in
a) a nominal scale variable.
b) an ordinal scale variable.
1. Defining and Collecting Data c) an interval scale variable.
d) a ratio scale variable.

MULTIPLE CHOICE 7) Referring to Scenario 1-1, the possible responses to the

question "Out of a 100 point score with 100 being the highest
1) Which of the following is a discrete quantitative and 0 being the lowest, what is your satisfaction level with the
(numerical) variable? Blu-ray player that you purchased?" result in
a) The Dow Jones Industrial average a) a nominal scale variable.
b) The volume of water released from a dam b) an ordinal scale variable.
c) The distance you drove yesterday. c) an interval scale variable.
d) The number of employees of an insurance company d) a ratio scale variable.

8) Which of the following is not an element of descriptive

2) The classification of student class designation (freshman, statistical problems?
sophomore, junior, senior) is an example of a) An inference made about the population based on the
a) a categorical variable. sample.
b) discrete variable. b) The population or sample of interest.
c) continuous variable. c) Tables, graphs, or numerical summary tools.
d) table of random numbers. d) Identification of patterns in the data.

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SCENARIO 1-1 TRUE/FALSE
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The manager of the customer service division of a major 9) True or False: Student grades (A to F) are an example of
consumer electronics company is interested in determining continuous numerical data.
whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player
made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied
with their products. 10) True or False: The answer to the question “What is your
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3) Referring to Scenario 1-1, the possible responses to the

question "How much time do you use the Blu-ray player every SHORT ANSWER
week on the average?" are values from a
a) discrete numerical variable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
b) continuous numerical variable. Scenario 1-3
c) categorical variable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d) table of random numbers. The Human Resources director of a large corporation wishes
to develop an employee benefits package and decides to select
500 employees from a list of all (N = 40,000) workers in order
4) Referring to Scenario 1-1, the possible responses to the to study their preferences for the various components of a
question "How many Blu-ray player s made by other potential package.
manufacturers have you used?" result in ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
a) a nominal scale variable. Referring to Scenario 1-3, answer the following questions (11-
b) an ordinal scale variable. 14).
c) an interval scale variable.
d) a ratio scale variable. 11) All the employees in the corporation constitute the
________.

5) Referring to Scenario 1-1, the possible responses to the 12) The 500 employees who will participate in this study
question "Are you happy, indifferent, or unhappy with the constitute the ________.
performance per dollar spent on the Blu-ray player?" result in
a) a nominal scale variable.
b) an ordinal scale variable. 13) The director will use the data from the sample to compute
c) an interval scale variable. ________.
d) a ratio scale variable.
14) Information obtained from the sample will be used to
draw conclusions about the true population ________.