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Sample Questions For Quiz of Statistics

This document contains 10 sample questions for the ISOM 5520 exam at K.H. Chen's class in the summer of 2014. The questions cover a range of statistical topics including the Chebyshev rule, parameters vs statistics, categorical vs numerical variables, means, percentages, time series data, speed limits, correlation, and standard deviations.

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Sample Questions For Quiz of Statistics

This document contains 10 sample questions for the ISOM 5520 exam at K.H. Chen's class in the summer of 2014. The questions cover a range of statistical topics including the Chebyshev rule, parameters vs statistics, categorical vs numerical variables, means, percentages, time series data, speed limits, correlation, and standard deviations.

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Sample Questions

ISOM 5520

K.H. Chen

SUMMER 2014

1.

According to the Chebyshev rule, at least 88.89% of all observations in any data set are
contained within a distance of how many standard deviations around the mean?
a.
b.
c.
d.

2.

Which of the following is most likely a parameter as opposed to a statistic?


a.
b.
c.
d.

3.

1
2
3
4

The average score of the first five students completing an assignment.


The proportion of females registered to vote in a country.
The average height of people randomly selected from a database.
The proportion of trucks stopped yesterday that were cited for bad brakes.

Which of the following are categorical variables?


I.
II.
III.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

4.

gender
age
eye color

I and II only
II and III only
I and III only
I, II, and III
None of the above.

The mean annual income of 20 women is $22,000 and the mean annual income of 10
men is $19,000. What is the mean annual income of the combined group of 30 people?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

$19,000
$20,000
$21,000
$22,000
None of the above.

The table below displays counts of people by gender and marital status.
Gender
Female
Male

5.

20%
30%
40%
50%
None of the above.

Refer to the table in the previous question, what percentage of the people is male?
(Round to the nearest whole percent)
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

7.

Other
60
40

What percentage of the males is married? (Round to the nearest whole percent)
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

6.

Single
100
200

Marital Status
Married
40
60

20%
30%
40%
50%
None of the above.

Time Series data were collected on a continuous variable but they were given to us only
in numerical order from smallest value to largest value rather than in time order. Which
of the following could we produce from data as given?
I.
II.
III.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Dotplot
Median
Time Series plot

I and II only
II and III only
I and III only
I, II, and III
None of the above.

8.

Many automotive experts believe that speed limits on highways are too low. One
particular expert has stated that he thinks that most drivers drive at speeds that they
consider safe. He suggested that the correct speed limit should be set at the 85th
percentile. Suppose that a random sample of 400 speeds on a highway where the limit is
60 miles per hour (mph) was recorded and a stem-and-leaf display of the data is
constructed and given below. Find the correct speed limit.
Stem-and-Leaf Display: Speeds
Stem-and-leaf of Speeds
Leaf Unit = 1.0
3
9
15
35
64
112
172
(62)
166
93
57
31
9
8
4
2
1

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

= 400

777
888999
000111
22222222333333333333
44444444445555555555555555555
666666666666666666677777777777777777777777777777
888888888888888888888888888888888888999999999999999999999999
00000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111
22222222222222222222222222222222222222222233333333333333333333333+
444444444444444455555555555555555555
66666666666666666666667777
8888888888888999999999
1
2233
55
7
8

65 mph
71 mph
73 mph
75 mph
Cannot be determined.

Which of the following is closest to the


correlation coefficient for the
scatterplot on the right?

Scatterplot of y vs x
130
120
110

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

-0.9
0.0
0.4
0.9
Cannot be determined since the
relationship is curved.

100
90
y

9.

5
5
6
6
6
6
6
7
7
7
7
7
8
8
8
8
8

80
70
60
50
40
1

4
x

10.

Dotplots of two distributions are shown below on the same scale. The standard deviation
of the first distribution is 1.353. What is the standard deviation of the second
distribution? (THINK! DO NOT CALCULATE!)
Dotplot of Distribution 1, Distribution 2

Distribution 1
Distribution 2

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

6
Data

0.6765
1
1.353
2.706
None of the above.

10

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