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Muiltiple Test: Chapter 3 Student's Name:: Class Frequency

This document contains a 10 question multiple choice test on data visualization and graphical displays of data. The questions cover topics such as suitable chart types for different data, deceptive graphical techniques, identifying errors in frequency distributions, properties revealed by scatter plots, characteristics of distributions, interpreting stem-and-leaf diagrams, reasons for using log scales, calculating relative frequencies from populations, and characteristics of histogram bars.

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Muiltiple Test: Chapter 3 Student's Name:: Class Frequency

This document contains a 10 question multiple choice test on data visualization and graphical displays of data. The questions cover topics such as suitable chart types for different data, deceptive graphical techniques, identifying errors in frequency distributions, properties revealed by scatter plots, characteristics of distributions, interpreting stem-and-leaf diagrams, reasons for using log scales, calculating relative frequencies from populations, and characteristics of histogram bars.

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MUILTIPLE TEST: CHAPTER 3 A:


B:
Student’s name:
C:
D:

1) A line chart would not be suitable to display which data?


A) U.S. oil imports from OPEC nations for the last 20 years
B) Annual compensation of the top 50 CEOs
C) Exxon-Mobil's quarterly sales data for the last five years
D) Daily stock market closing prices of Microsoft for the past month

2) Which of the following is least useful in visualizing categorical data?


A) Bar chart
B) Pie chart
C) Line chart
D) Pareto chart

3) Which is the most serious deceptive graphical technique?


A) Vague source
B) Using bold colors
C) Nonzero origin
D) Unlabeled data points

4) Bob found an error in the following frequency distribution. What is it?

Class Frequency
  1–10    2  
  11–20    6  
  25–30    8  
  31–40    12  
  44–50    6  

A) The class limits are overlapping too much.


B) The classes are not collectively exhaustive.
C) There are too many classes by Sturges' Rule.
D) The first class must start at 0.

5) Which is not revealed on a scatter plot?


A) Pairs of observed (xi, yi) data values
B) Nonlinear relationships between X and Y
C) Missing data values due to nonresponses
D) Unusual data values (outliers)
6) The distribution pictured below is

A) bimodal and skewed right.


B) bimodal and skewed left.
C) skewed right.
D) skewed left.

7) Below is a sorted stem-and-leaf diagram for the measured speeds (miles per hour) of 49
randomly chosen vehicles on highway I-80 in Nebraska. What is the mode?
       
Stem unit = 10 
Leaf unit = 1 
       
Frequency Stem Leaf
  1 4 9
  1 5 5
  17 6 01222455556688999
  19 7 0111233345666778999
  7 8 0133557
  4 9 0122
  49    

A) 62 B) 79 C) 65 D) Impossible to tell

8) Which is a reason for using a log scale for time series data?
A) It helps compare growth in time series of dissimilar magnitude.
B) General business audiences find it easier to interpret a log scale.
C) On a log scale, equal distances represent equal dollar amounts.
D) The axis labels are usually easier to read in log units.

9) A population is of size 5,500 observations. When the data are represented in a relative
frequency distribution, the relative frequency of a given interval is 0.15. The frequency in this
interval is equal to
A) 4,675 B) 800 C) 675 D) 825

10) Which is a characteristic of a histogram's bars?


A) The bar widths reveal the cumulative frequencies of data values.
B) The bar widths indicate class intervals, and their areas indicate frequencies.
C) The bar widths show class intervals, and their heights indicate frequencies.
D) The bar widths are an exact multiple of the sample size.

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