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This document contains a midterm exam with 24 multiple choice questions covering various topics in statistics including: - Levels of measurement for different types of data - Descriptive statistics such as frequency distributions and histograms - Probability concepts like binomial and Poisson distributions - Inferential statistics techniques involving normal distributions, percentiles, and proportions The questions require identifying appropriate statistical analyses and calculations for datasets, distributions, and real-world scenarios.

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Midterm Exam

This document contains a midterm exam with 24 multiple choice questions covering various topics in statistics including: - Levels of measurement for different types of data - Descriptive statistics such as frequency distributions and histograms - Probability concepts like binomial and Poisson distributions - Inferential statistics techniques involving normal distributions, percentiles, and proportions The questions require identifying appropriate statistical analyses and calculations for datasets, distributions, and real-world scenarios.

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MIDTERM EXAM

1.If Gallup, Harris and other pollsters asked people to indicate their political party affiliation -Democrat,
Republican or Independent, the data gathered would be an example of which scale ofmeasurement?

a. Nominal
b. Ordinal
c. Interval
d. Ratio

2. A bank asks customers to evaluate its drive-through service as good, average, or poor. Which level of
measurement is this classification?

a. Nominal
b. Ordinal
c. Interval
d. Ratio
3. The members of each basketball team wear numbers on their jerseys. What scale of measurement are these
numbers considered?
a. Nominal
b. Ordinal
c. Interval
d. Ratio
4. The general process of gathering, organizing, summarizing, analyzing, and interpreting data is called

a. Statistics.
b. Descriptive statistics.
c. Inferential statistics.
d. Levels of measurement
5. A proportion or part of a population is called
6. The proportion of observations that fall within each class interval is called the ________.
a. relative frequency
b. relative cumulative frequency
c. cumulative frequency
d. frequency
7. The general term for a graphical display of categorical data made up of vertical or horizontal bars is called
a(n) ___________.
a. Bar chart
b. Pie chart
c. Pareto
d. Table
8. 2. A company collected the ages from a random sample of its middle managers with the resulting frequency
distribution shown below:

Class Interval Frequency


20 to < 25 8
25 to < 30 6
30 to < 35 5
35 to < 40 12
40 to < 45 15
45 to < 50 7

What would be the approximate shape of the relative frequency histogram?


A. Symmetrical
B. Uniform
C. Multiple peak
D. Skewed to the left
E. Skewed to the right
9. a histogram that has a longer tail extending toward larger values of
a. skewed to the left
b. skewed to the right
c. normal
d. a scatter plot
10. Using Chebyshev's theorem at least 93.75 of the population measurements lie within
11. A measurement located outside the upper limits of a box-and-whiskers display is___________
a always in the first quartile
b. an outlier
c. always the largest value in the data set
d. within the lower limits.

12.  If a population distribution is skewed to the right, then, given a random sample from that population, one
would expect that the
A. Mode would be equal to the mean
B. Median would be greater than the mean
C. Median would be equal to the mean
D. Median would be less than the mean
13. The ____________________ is a quantity that measures the variation of a population or sampler elative to
its mean.
A.Mean
B.Standard deviation
C.Range
D. Coefficient of variation
14. Four employees who work as drive-through attendants at a local fast-food restaurant are being evaluated. As
part of a quality improvement initiative and employee evaluation, these workers were observed over three days.
One of the statistics collected was the proportion of time the employee forgot to include a napkin in the bag.
Related information is given in the table.

Workers Dinners Packed No Napkin


Joe 25 6
Jan 20 2
Cheryl 20 10
Clay 35 4

What is the probability that Clay prepared your dinner and forgot to include a napkin?

15. Joe is considering pursuing an MBA degree. He has applied to two different universities. The acceptance
rate for applicants with similar qualifications is 25% for University A and 40% for University B. What is the
probability that Joe will be accepted at both universities? You may assume that the universities make their
decisions independently of one another. ( 0.1)
16. It is very common for television series to draw a large audience for special events or for cliff-hanging story
lines. Suppose that on one of these occasions, the special show drew viewers from 38.2 percent of all US TV
households. Suppose that three TV households are randomly selected. What is the probability that all three
households viewed this special show?

a. 0.726
b. 0.146
c. 0.382
d. 0.05574

17. The binomial distribution describes the number of:


a. "successes" in n Bernoulli trials.
b. trials to obtain n "successes" in a Bernoulli process.
c. trials to obtain the first "success" in a Bernoulli process.
d. "successes" or "failures" in a Bernoulli process.
18. Which model best describes the number of nonworking web URLs ("This page cannot be displayed") you
encounter in a randomly chosen minute while surfing websites for Florida vacation rental condos?
a. Poisson
b. Geometric
c. Hypergeometric
d. Binomial

19. Which distribution is most nearly appropriate to describe the number of fatalities in Texas in a given year
due to poisonous snakebites?
Select one:
A. Hypergeometric
B. Geometric
C. Poisson
D. Binomial
20. The coefficient of variation for a Poisson distribution with λ= 5 is:
A.35.2percent.
B.58.9 percent.
C.44.7 percent.
D.31.1 percent.
21. A large number of applicants for admission to graduate study in business are given an aptitude test. Scores
are normally distributed with a mean of 460 and standard deviation of 80. What fraction of applicants would
you expect to have scores of 600 or above?
A. 0.0401

B. 0.4599

C. 0.5401

D. 0.0852
22. If the mean time between in-flight aircraft engine shutdowns is 12,500 operating
hours, the 90th percentile of the waiting time until the next shutdown is [Hint: you need to
convert the mean time between events to mean events per hour λ, then apply the approach of
"inverse exponential"]:
a. 20,180 hours.
b. 28,782 hours.
c. 23,733 hours.
d. 18,724 hours.
23. On average, 15 minutes elapse between discoveries of fraudulent corporate tax returns in a certain IRS
office. What is the probability that less than 30 minutes will elapse before the next fraudulent corporate tax
return is discovered?
24. The lengths of brook trout caught in a certain Colorado stream are normally distributed with a mean of 14
inches and a standard deviation of 3 inches. What proportion of brook trout caught will be between 12 and 18
inches in length?
A. .6563

B. .6826

C. .2486

D. .4082

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