Question 1
A restaurant surveys its patrons to pick their favorite item on the menu. What is the level
of measurement of the data?
That is correct!
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
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Question 1
A restaurant surveys its patrons to pick their favorite item on the menu. What is the level
of measurement of the data?
That is correct!
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
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Question 2
Given that Cheryl is collecting data on car color, what type of data is she working with?
That is correct!
qualitative
discrete quantitative
continuous quantitative
none of the above
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Question 3
A regional airline service advertises that their average ticket price is $60. Given that
their ticket prices are $14, $85, $94, and $107, why is this statistic misleading?
That is correct!The statistic contains a calculation error.
The sample is biased.
The sample size is insufficient.
The data contains an outlier.
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Question 4
When considering different sampling methods, cluster sampling includes the steps:
_______.
That is correct!
identify individuals of the population that are easily accessible; obtain data from these
individuals
list the members of the population; use simple random sampling to select a starting
point in the population; let k = (number of individuals in the population)/(number of
individuals needed in the sample); choose every kth individual in the list starting with the
one that was randomly selected
divide the population into groups; use simple random sampling to identify a
proportionate number of individuals from each group
use simple random sampling to select a set of groups; every individual in the chosen
groups is included in the sample
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Question 5
Gloria collected data from a random sample of 1200 students in her school district
asking whether or not they read more than one book per month. Based on the results,
she reports that 35% of the students in all state schools read more than one book per
month. Why is this statistic misleading?That is correct!
The data contains an outlier.
The sample size is insufficient.
The sample is biased.
The statistic contains a calculation error.
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Question 6
Which of the following scenarios contain biased samples? Select all that apply.
That's not right.
To estimate the mean number of sales that coworkers take at his company, Benjamin
collects data from a randomly selected proportionate number of coworkers from each
company site.
Howard wants to estimate the mean cost of waste in his company. He collects data by
recording waste from the first process step.
To estimate the political party distribution of residents in his state, Sean collects data
from a large group o
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