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This document contains a 15-question quiz on statistics concepts such as measures of central tendency, variability, percentiles, and distributions. The questions cover topics like identifying the median of a data set, interpreting z-scores and percentiles, measuring variability with standard deviation and interquartile range, how outliers affect standard deviation, how adding a constant to all values affects standard deviation, properties of five-number summaries and their components, and comparing performances based on mean, distribution type, and individual scores relative to the mean.

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Quiz 3

This document contains a 15-question quiz on statistics concepts such as measures of central tendency, variability, percentiles, and distributions. The questions cover topics like identifying the median of a data set, interpreting z-scores and percentiles, measuring variability with standard deviation and interquartile range, how outliers affect standard deviation, how adding a constant to all values affects standard deviation, properties of five-number summaries and their components, and comparing performances based on mean, distribution type, and individual scores relative to the mean.

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EM 201/ EDUC 201: Quiz 03

ROMBLON STATE UNIVERSITY


San Fernando Campus
San Fernando, Romblon

EM 201/EDUC 201

QUIZ NO.3

Direction: Answer what is required in each of the following:

1. Which of the following data sets has a median of 3? Justify your answer.

A. A. 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

B. B. 2, 5, 3, 1, 1

C. C. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

D. D. 1, 2, 4, 4, 4

E. E. Choices (A) and (C)

2. Suppose that the results of an exam tell you your z – score is 0.70. What does this tell you

about how well you did on the exam?

3. A seller tells you that the average cost of houses in a town is Php176,000. You want to know

how much the prices of the houses may vary from this average. What measurement you need?

Justify your answer.

A. Standard Deviation

B. Inter-quartile Range

C. Variance

D. Percentile

E. Choice (A) or (C)

4. What measure of variability is/are sensitive to outliers (very high or very low scores)? Justify

your answer.

A. Mean

B. Inter-quartile Range

C. Standard Deviation

D. Choices (A) and (B)

E. Choices (A) and (C)

5. Everyone at a company is given a year-end bonus of Php2,000. How will this affect the

standard deviation of the annual salaries in the company that year?

6. Your score on a test is at 85th percentile. What does this mean?

7. On a multiple-choice test, your actual score was 82%, which was reported to be at the 70th

percentile. What is the meaning of your test results?

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8. Seven students got the following exam scores (in percent correct) on a Science exam: 0%, 40%,

50%, 65%, 75%, 90%, 100%. Which of these exam scores is at 50th percentile? Justify your

answer.

9. Which of the following statements is incorrect? Justify your answer.

A. The mean and the 1st quartile can be the same.

B. The maximum and minimum value can be the same.

C. The 1st and 3rd quartiles can be the same.

D. The range and the IQR can be the same.

E. None of the above

10. Mary attempts to calculate the five-number summary for a set of exam scores. Her results are

as follows:

a. Minimum = 30

b. Maximum = 90

c. 1st Quartile = 50

d. 3rd Quartile = 80

e. Median = 85

What is wrong with Mary’s five – number summary? Justify your answer.

11. Which of the following statements is TRUE? Justify your answer.

A. Fifty percent of the values in a data set lie between the 1st and 3rd quartiles.

B. Fifty percent of the values in a data set lie between the median and the

maximum value.

C. Fifty percent of the values in a data set lie between the median and the

minimum value.

D. Fifty percent of the values in a data set lie at or below the median.

E. All of the above.

12. Which of the following relationships holds TRUE? Justify your answer.

A. The mean is always greater than the median.

B. The variance is always larger than the standard deviation

C. The range is always less than the inter-quartile range.

D. The inter-quartile range is always less than the standard deviation.

E. None of the above.

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13. A data set contains five numbers with a mean of 3 and SD of 1. Which of the following data sets

matches those criteria? Justify your answer.

A. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

B. 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

C. 2, 2, 3, 4, 4

D. 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

E. 0, 0, 3, 6, 6

14. Teacher A is handling two sections in Mathematics 3. He noticed that in his exam conducted,

the two sections obtained the same mean value. However, Section A showed a skewed to the

right distribution while Section B showed a skewed to the left distribution. How do you compare

the performance of the two sections? Which section performed better?

15. In a 100-item test, Rom scored 88 while Rem scored 86. Which of the two students performed

better in the test if the calculated mean is 85? Justify your answer.

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