STA 2023 Introduction to Statistics

Practice Test for Chapter 1, 2 and 3

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
Determine whether the given value is a statistic or a parameter.
1) A health and fitness club surveys 40 randomly selected members and found that the average
w eight of those questioned is 157 lb.
A) Parameter
B) Statistic
2) A fter taking the first exam, 15 of the students dropped the class.
A) Statistic
B) Parameter

1)

2)

Identify the number as either continuous or discrete.

3) The total number of phone calls a sales representative makes in a month is 425.
A) D iscrete
B) Continuous

3)

4) The average height of all freshmen entering college in a certain year is 68.4 inches.
A) D iscrete
B) Continuous
Determine which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) is most appropriate.
5) Temperatures of the ocean at various depths.
A) Ratio
B) O rdinal
C) Interval
D) N ominal
6) N ationalities of survey respondents.
A) Ratio
B) O rdinal

C) Interval

D) N ominal

7) A ges of survey respondents.

A) Interval
B) N ominal

C) O rdinal

D) Ratio

4)

5)

6)

7)

Is the study experimental or observational?

8) A quality control specialist compares the output from a machine w ith a ne w lubricant to the output
of machines with the old lubricant.
A) O bservational
B) Experimental
9) A stock analyst selects a stock from a group of twenty for investment by choosing the stock w ith the
greatest earnings per share reported for the last quarter.
A) Experimental
B) O bservational
Identify the type of observational study.
10) A researcher plans to obtain data by follo wing those in cancer remission since January of 2002.
A) Cross- sectional
B) Retrospective
C) Prospective
D) N one of these
11) A tow n obtains current employment data by polling 10,000 of its citizens this month.
A) Retrospective
B) Prospective
C) Cross- sectional
D) N one of these

8)

9)

10)

11)

Identify which of these types of sampling is used: random, stratified, systematic, cluster, convenience.
12) 49, 34, and 48 students are selected from the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes with 496, 348,
an d 481 students respectively.
A) Convenience
B) Stratified
C) Random
D) Systematic
E) Cluster
Use critical thinking to develop an alternative conclusion.
13) A stud y shows that adults w ho work at their desk all day weigh more than those who do not.
Conclusion: Desk jobs cause people to gain weight. Do you agree with the conclusion of the stud y?
W hy or w hy not?
A) N o, the conclusion is not correct. Desk job workers are confined to their chairs for most of
their work day. Other jobs require standing or walking around w hich burns calories. It is
probably the lack of exercise that causes higher weights, not the desk job itself. A void
causality altogether by saying lack of walking and exercise is associated w ith higher weights.
B) Yes, the stu d y conclusion is correct. Since the average weight of people w ith desk jobs is
higher than the weight of those w ho do not have desk jobs, we can say that desk jobs cause
workers to weigh more.
C) N o, the conclusion is not correct. The study must be fla wed. It should make no difference in
a person's weight w hether they work at a desk or not.
Identify which of these types of sampling is used: random, stratified, systematic, cluster, convenience.
14) A pollster uses a computer to generate 500 random numbers, then interviews the voters
corresponding to those numbers.
A) Cluster
B) Stratified
C) Convenience
D) Random
E) Systematic
15) A n ed ucation researcher randomly selects 48 mid dle schools and interviews all the teachers at each
school.
A) Stratified
B) Random
C) Convenience
D) Cluster
E) Systematic

12)

13)

14)

15)

Solve the problem.

16) Using the information in the table on home sale prices in the city of Summerhill for the month of
June, find the class boundaries for class 80.0- 110.9.
Class Limits
Frequency
(Sale price in thousands) (N o. of homes sold)
80.0 - 110.9
2
111.0 - 141.9
5
142.0 - 172.9
7
173.0 - 203.9
10
204.0 - 234.9
3
235.0 - 265.9
1
A) 79.90, 111.0
B) 79.95, 110.95

C) 80.00, 110.95

D) 79.90, 110.95

17) Using the information in the table on home sale prices in the city of Summerhill for the month of
June, find the class midpoint for class 235.0- 265.9.
Class Limits
Frequency
(Sale price in thousands) (N o. of homes sold)
80.0 - 110.9
2
111.0 - 141.9
5
142.0 - 172.9
7
173.0 - 203.9
10
204.0 - 234.9
3
235.0 - 265.9
1
A) 250.55
B) 250.50

C) 250.45

C) 31

17)

D) 250.40

18) Using the information in the table on home sale prices in the city of Summerhill for the month of
June, determine the w idth of each class.
Class Limits
Frequency
(Sale price in thousands) (N o. of homes sold)
80.0 - 110.9
2
111.0 - 141.9
5
142.0 - 172.9
7
173.0 - 203.9
10
204.0 - 234.9
3
235.0 - 265.9
1
A) 15.5
B) 30.9

16)

D) 32

18)

Construct the cumulative frequency distribution that corresponds to the given frequency distribution.
19)
Days of
vacation Frequency
0-1
19
2-3
20
4-5
16
6-7
22
8-9
23
A)

19)

B)
Days of C umulative
vacation
Frequency
0-1
19
2-3
39
4-5
55
6-7
77
8-9
100

Days of C umulative
vacation
Frequency
0-1
39
2-3
55
4-5
77
6-7
100
8-9
123

C)

D)
Days of C umulative
vacation
Frequency
0-1
0.19
2-3
0.2
4-5
0.16
6-7
0.22
8-9
0.23

Days of C umulative
vacation
Frequency
0-1
19
2-3
39
4-5
56
6-7
78
8-9
100

Construct the relative frequency distribution that corresponds to the given frequency distribution.
20)
Incomes Frequency
200- 300
61
301- 400
70
401- 500
84
501- 600
95
>600
11
A)
B)
Relative
Relative
Incomes Frequency
Incomes Frequency
201- 300
15.5%
200- 300
12.5%
301- 400
22.1%
301- 400
20.1%
401- 500
31.3%
401- 500
37.3%
501- 600
16.2%
501- 600
15.2%
>600
14.9%
>600
14.9%
C)
D)
Relative
Relative
Incomes Frequency
Incomes Frequency
200- 300
19.00%
200- 300
25.77%
301- 400
21.81%
301- 400
29.87%
401- 500
26.17%
401- 500
3.45%
501- 600
29.60%
501- 600
18.77%
>600
3.43%
>600
25.85%

20)

A nurse measured the blood pressure of each person who visited her clinic. Following is a relative-frequency histogram
for the systolic blood pressure readings for those people aged between 25 and 40. Use the histogram to answer the
question. The blood pressure readings were given to the nearest whole number.

21) A pproximately w hat percentage of the people aged 25- 40 had a systolic blood pressure reading
between 110 and 119 inclusive?
A) 35%
B) 0.35%
C) 30%
D) 3.5%

21)

22) What common class w idth was used to construct the frequency distribution?
A) 10
B) 100
C) 11

22)
D) 9

23) Identify the center of the third class.

A) 130
B) 125

D) 124

23)
C) 120

Construct a pie chart representing the given data set.

24) The follow ing figures give the distribution of land (in acres) for a county containing 85,000 acres.
Forest Farm U rban
12,750 8500 63,750
A)

B)

24)

Use the data to create a stemplot.

25) The attendance counts for this season's basketball games are listed below.
227 239 215 219
221 233 229 233
235 228 245 231
A)
B)
21 5 9
21 5 7 9
22 1 7 8 9
22 1 8 9
23 1 3 3 5 9
23 1 3 3 5 9
24 5
24 5
Consider the data graphed in the scatterplot, to answer the question.
26) A sample of 54 w ild bears (anesthetized) yielded measurements including weight, age, chest size,
length and headlength. The following scatterplots show the relationship between pairs of
variables. By examining the scatterplots, which of the variables gives the closest linear relationship
w ith weight.
A)
B)

C)

25)

26)

D)

Find the mean for the given sample data.

27) Frank's Furniture employees earned the following amounts last week:
$453.83 $529.91 $439.27 $309.23 $453.86
$533.25 $457.25 $156.42 $152.64
What w as the mean amount earned by an employee last week? Round your answer to the nearest
cent.
A) $387.30
B) $435.71
C) $380.63
D) $497.95

27)

Find the mean of the data summarized in the given frequency distribution.
28) The test scores of 40 stu dents are summarized in the frequency distribution below. Find the mean
score.
Score Students
50- 59
7
60- 69
5
70- 79
10
80- 89
6
90- 99
12
A) 69.6

B) 77.3

C) 74.5

28)

D) 73.4

Find the median for the given sample data.

29) The number of vehicles passing through a ban k drive- up line during each 15 - minute period w as
recorded. The results are show n below. Find the median number of vehicles going through the line
in a fifteen - minute period.
21 23 21 24
24 21 26 23
31 27 27 25
20 27 21 16
11 23 23 23
A) 22.85
B) 23
C) 24
D) 27
Find the midrange for the given sample data.
30) Bill kept track of the number of hours he spent exercising each week. The results for 15 weeks are
shown below. Fin d the midrange.
7.2 7.0 7.2 7.4 7.5
7.5 6.5 8.0 8.1 7.4
8.7 7.0 7.5 8.9 7.5
A) 7.70
B) 7.60
C) 2.4
D) 7.5

29)

30)

Find the standard deviation for the given data. Round your answer to one more decimal place than the original data.
31) 2, 6, 15, 9, 11, 22, 1, 4, 8, 19
31)
A) 7.1
B) 6.8
C) 6.3
D) 2.1
32) To get the best deal on a C D player, Tom called eight appliance stores and asked the cost of a
specific model. The prices he was quoted are listed below:
$391 $295 $388 $210 $367 $325 $169 $276
Compute the standard deviation s.
A) $779,601.0
B) $321.5
C) $732,655.1
D) $81.9
Solve the problem.
33) A company performs quality control on its juice bottles. It fin ds that the volumes of juice in its 16
ounce bottles have a mean of 16.2 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.07 ounces. Use the range
rule of thumb to estimate the minimum and maximum "usual" volumes.
A) 16.01 ounces, 16.11 ounces
B) 16.06 ounces, 16.34 ounces
C) 15.99 ounces, 16.41 ounces
D) 16.13 ounces, 16.27 ounces

32)

33)

Find the z-score corresponding to the given value and use the z-score to determine whether the value is unusual.
Consider a score to be unusual if its z-score is less than -2.00 or greater than 2.00. Round the z-score to the nearest tenth
if necessary.
34) A weight of 220 pounds among a population having a mean weight of 161 pounds and a standard
34)
deviation of 23.5 pounds.
A) - 2.5; not unusual
B) 2.5; un usual
C) 58.8; un usual
D) 2.5; not unusual

Determine which score corresponds to the higher relative position.

35) W hich score has a higher relative position, a score of 278.4 on a test for w hich x = 240 and s = 24, or

35)

a score of 66 on a test for w hich x = 60 and s = 6?

A) A score of 66
B) Both scores have the same relative position.
C) A score of 278.4

Find the percentile for the data point.

36) D ata set: 6 3 21 15 6 15 30 27 33 9 3 30 18 3 30;
data point 21
A) 60
B) 70

36)
C) 52

D) 35

Find the indicated measure.

37) The weights (in pounds) of 30 newborn babies are listed below. Find P 16.
5.5 5.7 5.8 5.9 6.1 6.1 6.4 6.4 6.5 6.6
6.7 6.7 6.7 6.9 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.2
7.4 7.5 7.7 7.7 7.8 8.0 8.1 8.1 8.3 8.7
A) 4.8
B) 6.0

C) 6.1

38) The weights (in pounds) of 30 newborn babies are listed below. Find P 20.
5.5 5.7 5.8 6.0 6.1 6.1 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6
6.7 6.7 6.7 6.9 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.2
7.4 7.5 7.7 7.7 7.8 8.0 8.1 8.1 8.3 8.7
A) 7.2
B) 6.3
C) 6.1

37)

D) 5.9
38)

D) 6.2

Construct a boxplot for the given data. Include values of the 5-number summary in all boxplots.
39) The highest temperatures ever recorded (in F) in 32 different U.S. states are show n below.
Construct a boxplot for the data set.
100 100 105 105 106 106 107 107
109 110 110 112 112 112 114 114
114 115 116 117 118 118 118 118
118 119 120 121 122 125 128 134
A)
B)

C)

D)

39)

Use the given data to construct a frequency distribution.

40) O n a math test, the scores of 24 stu dents were

40)

97 74 77 65 77 77 97 81 77 61 88 74
74 88 77 74 88 77 74 81 74 88 81 65
Construct a frequency table. Use 4 classes beginning w ith a lower class limit of 60.

A)

B)
Score Frequency
60 - 69
3
70 - 79
12
80 - 89
7
90 - 99
2

A NSW ERS
1 - 10: B
11- 20: C
21- 30: A
31- 40: A

B
B
A
D

A
A
B
B

B
D
B
B

C
D
A
C

C)
Score Frequency
60 - 70
3
70 - 80
12
80 - 90
7
90 - 100
2

D
B
A
A

D
C
A
C

B
C
B
D

B
A
B
A

C
C
A
A

Score Frequency
60 - 73
3
74 - 87
15
88 - 101
6