STAT 1350, Quiz #8, Summer 2014

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Name

1-2. A random sample of patients who attended a clinic was selected. The age of
the patient (years) and the number of days since the last visit were collected and
are displayed in the figure.
500
400
300
Days Since Las t Visit

200
100
0
20

30

40

50

60

70

80

Age of Patient

1. A plausible value of the correlation coefficient for the data displayed is

A) 0.40.
B) 0.25.
C) 0.00.
D) +0.75.
E) 0.90.

A)
B)
C)
D)

2. Describe the association between Age of Patient and Days Since Last
Visit.
There is a fairly strong, positive, straight-line association.
There is a fairly strong, negative, straight-line association.
There is a fairly weak, positive, straight-line association.
There is a fairly weak, negative, straight-line association.

3-5. How well does the number of beers a student drinks predict his or her blood
alcohol content? Sixteen student volunteers at The Ohio State University drank a
randomly assigned number of cans of beer. Thirty minutes later, a police officer
measured their blood alcohol content (BAC). A scatterplot of the data appears
below.

3. One student drank 9 beers. You see from the scatterplot that his BAC was
about
A) 0.20.
B) 5.
C) 7.
D) 9.
E) 20.

A)
B)
C)
D)
E)

4. The scatterplot above shows

a moderately strong negative straight-line relationship between number of
beers and BAC.
a weak negative straight-line relationship between number of beers and BAC.
almost no relationship between number of beers and BAC.
a weak positive straight-line relationship between number of beers and BAC.
a moderately strong positive straight-line relationship between number of
beers and BAC.
5. A plausible value of the correlation between number of beers and blood
alcohol content, based on the scatterplot, is
A) r = 0.85.
B) r = 0.3.
C) r close to 0.
D) r = 0.3.
E) r = 0.85.

6. Which statistical measure is not strongly affected by a few outliers in the

data?
A)
The mean
C)
The standard deviation
B)
The median
D)
The correlation coefficient

A)
B)
C)
D)
E)

7. Which of these is not true of the correlation r between the weight in pounds
and gas mileage in miles-per-gallon for a sample of pickup trucks?
r must take a value between 1 and 1.
r is measured in pounds.
If heavier pickup trucks tend to also get lower gas mileage, then r < 0.
r would not change if we measured these trucks in kilograms instead of
pounds.
Both B and D are correct.
8. A correlation cannot have the value
A) 0.4.
B) 0.75.
C) 1.5.
D) 0.0.

E) 0.99.

9. Which correlation indicates a strong positive straight-line relationship?

A) 0.4
B) 0.75
C) 1.5
D) 0.0
E) 0.99
10. In a scatterplot we can see
A)
a display of the five-number summary.
B)
whether or not we have a simple random sample.
C)
the shape, center, and spread of the distribution of a quantitative variable.
D)
the form, direction, and strength of a relationship between two quantitative
variables.