Quantitative Proficiency Test

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Question 1 If you have imported the math module using the following 1:59:10
statement, how would you call the exponential function
(exp(x))? QUESTIONS

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import math as mt
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exp(1) 16 17 18 19 20

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The exponential function has not been imported
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mt.exp(1)
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math.exp(1) 36 37 38 39 40

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Question 2 Consider the following statements concerning a positive
integer

1. if is a multiple of 7, then is a multiple of 7

2. if is a multiple of 12, then is a multiple of 12
3. if is a multiple of 6, then is a multiple of 6

Which of the statements is true?

Statements 1 and 3

Statements 2 and 3

All statements

None of the statements

Question 3 A type I error is:

Rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true.

Rejecting the alternative hypothesis when it is true.

Rejecting the null hypothesis when it is false.

Rejecting the alternative hypothesis when it is false.

Question 4 Which of these scenarios describes two independent

events:

1. Pick a card, then pick another card from the same deck
2. Pick a card, then pick another card from a different deck

Both scenarios

Scenario 2
 Scenario 1

Neither scenario

Question 5 According to the Central Limit Theorem, as a sample size

gets large, the sampling distribution of the sample mean
can be approximated as the:

Uniform Distribution

Normal Distribution

Student's T Distribution

Exponential Distribution
Question 6 What does the following Python code return?

def func(x,y):
if (x == 0):
return y
else:
return func(x+1, y-x)

func(-3, 10)

13

15

-10

16

Question 7 Find x:

12

120

10

Question 8 After rolling one die, what is the probability that a second
die roll will have a value EXACTLY one greater than the first
roll value?
Question 9 Which is NOT true of two random variables x and y?

correlation (x, y) equals 1 if x=y

correlation (2x, 2y) = 2 times correlation (x, y)

correlation (x, y) is never less than -1

correlation (x, y) equals correlation (y,x)

Question 10 Which of the following expressions does not have an

integral which can be expressed in terms of elementary
functions ( )

Question 11 If a student got 75 points on an exam where the average

score was 60 and the standard deviation was 10, what is
 the z-score of their result?

1.5

15

69

85

Question 12 Find a particular solution to the differential equation:

Question 13 Consider the following partial differential equation:

where is the unknown function. Define the

following functions:

Which of these functions are solutions to the partial

differential equation?

Only
 All the functions

None of the functions

Question 14 What is the output of the following code?

A = {1, 2, 3}
B = {1, 3, 4, 5}
C = {1, 2, 5, 7}
print(A & B | C)

{1, 3}

{1, 2, 3}

{1, 2, 3, 5, 7}

{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7}

Question 15 What is the output of the following program?

print("Hello World"[-1])

dlroW olleH

The program gives an error

Hello worl
Question 16 Which of the following is true about Python?

Identifiers are case-sensitive, the language is not

strongly-typed.

Identifiers are case-sensitive, the language is

strongly-typed.

Identifiers are not case sensitive, the language is

strongly-typed.

Identifiers are not case sensitive, the language is not

strongly-typed.

Question 17 How many permutations are there of the digits in the

number "56789"?

24

720

120

Question 18 If is defined by

then is:
Question 19 For each , define

Then the function defined by

exists for each and is equal to:

Question 20 For what value of x are the following vectors NOT linearly
independent?

there is no such value

-2
Question 21 What are the eigenvalues of:

(4, 6)

(4, 5)

(2, 3)

(2, 5)

Question 22 Which of the following creates a data frame?

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(data={'A'= [10, 100],

'Z'= [20, 400] } )

df = pd.DataFrame(data=['A'= {10, 100},

'Z'= {20, 400} ] )

df = pd.DataFrame(data={'A': [10, 100],

'Z': [20, 400] } )

df = pd.DataFrame(data=['A': [10, 100],

'Z': [20, 400] ] )

Question 23 If
 rank A=

Question 24 Which of the following is the general solution for the

differential equation:

where A and B are arbitrary constants?

Question 25 What is the coefficient of the term of the Taylor
expansion of around x=0?

Question 26 Let and be defined by

and

Consider the following statements:

1. is one-to-one
2. is onto
3. is one-to-one
4. is onto

Which of the statements are true?

Statement 2

Statements 2 and 3

None of the statements

All of the statements

Question 27 Which of the statements below change the value of "A" in

this dictionary from 1 to 2?
 {"A": 1}

dict += 1

dict["A": 2]

dict["A"] = 2

dict[0] = 2

Question 28 What is the output of this line of code:

2**3-3**2

The program gives an error

-1

25

Question 29

Evaluate:

does not exist

2
 -2

Question 30 Find x:

(-2, 2)

-2

Question 31 How many combinations are there of choosing 7 items

from 9?

63

36

72

27

Question 32 Given the function:

with the constraint that , at which points do

the maximum and minimum of occur?
Question 33 Python data structures include all of the following items
except:

Glossary

Data frame

Dictionary

Set

Question 34 Which of these is a function:

Question 35 Express as summation:
Question 36 The maximum value minus the minimum value of a data
set measures the:

Range

Standard deviation

Slew

Slope

Question 37 The value of the integral

is:

Question 38 What does the following expression give?

The slope of curve between a and b.

The average of the curve between a and b.

The area under the curve between a and b.

The summation of the curve between a and b.

Question 39 What is the determinant of:

ad+bc

ac-bd

ad-bc

ac+bd

Question 40 What type of copy command is used in the program

below?

a=[[3,4,5],[6,7,19],[8,15,17]]
b=list(a)

Hollow copy

Deep copy

Cannot be determined

Shallow copy

Question 41 If , , and then find:

Question 42 For the equation:

what is the slope of the tangent line at ?

Question 43 If , , and , then

find:

0.2

0.3

0.6

0.4
Question 44 What is the probability of drawing a card with a prime
number from a deck of cards (J = 11, Q = 12, K = 13)?

Question 45 Which of the following numbers does this program not

output?

for num in range(10, 12):

for j in range(9,num):
print(num * j)

110

90

99

108

Question 46 What is the inverse of:

doesn't exist
Question 47 Which of the following functions is continuous at ?

None of these

Question 48

Evaluate:
Question 49 What is the sum of:

1054

Question 50 What is the output of this program?

prim_colors = ["red", "blue", "yellow"

[x if x != "yellow" else "green" for x

["green", "green", "green"]

["red", "blue", "green"]

["red", "blue", "yellow"]

["green", "green", "yellow"]

Question 51 Find the equivalent statement:

Question 52 Which of the following is not a feature of Python?

Interpreted

Object oriented

Statically typed

Readable
Question 53 Let be defined by

The value of is:

Undefined

-2

Question 54 Let be the value of that maximizes the

function defined by

and be the value of this maximum.

Then is:

Question 55
Question 56 Which of the following statements is true of a sample?

Reports of a sample are true without a margin of

error.

A sample contains all the members of a specified

group.

A population is a subset of a sample.

A measurable quality of a sample is a statistic.

Question 57 Find the solution to the following differential equation:

Question 58 Which of the following is the definition of a mode.

The value which appears most often in a sample set.

The average value of a sample set.

 The central number in an ordered sample set.

None of these.

Question 59 Evaluate:

Question 60 If the standard deviation is 0.4, what is the variance?

0.02

0.2

0.16

1.6

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