Practice Exam 1

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Determine whether the data set is a population or a sample.

1) The age of every fourth person entering a department store 1)
A) sample B) population

2) The age of each employee at a local grocery store 2)

A) sample B) population

Use the Venn diagram to identify the population and the sample.
3) 3)

A) Population: Magazine subscribers; Sample; Magazine subscribers who renew their

subscription
B) Population: Magazine subscribers who renew their subscription; Sample: Magazine
subscribers

Provide an appropriate response.

4) Parking at a large university has become a very big problem. University administrators are 4)
interested in determining the average parking time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking
spot) of its students. An administrator inconspicuously followed 120 students and carefully
recorded their parking times. Identify the population of interest to the university administration.
A) the parking times of the entire set of students that park at the university
B) the entire set of faculty, staff, and students that park at the university
C) the parking times of the 120 students from whom the data were collected
D) the students that park at the university between 9 and 10 AM on Wednesdays

5) Parking at a large university has become a very big problem. University administrators are 5)
interested in determining the average parking time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking
spot) of its students. An administrator inconspicuously followed 180 students and carefully
recorded their parking times. Identify the sample of interest to the university administration.
A) parking time of a student B) type of car (import or domestic)
C) parking times of the 180 students D) location of the parking spot

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 6) The legal profession conducted a study to determine the percentage of cardiologists who had been 6)
sued for malpractice in the last three years. The sample was randomly chosen from a national
directory of doctors. Identify the individuals in the study.
A) the doctor's area of expertise (i.e., cardiology, pediatrics, etc.)
B) all cardiologists in the directory
C) the responses: have been sued/have not been sued for malpractice in the last three years
D) each cardiologist selected from the directory

Determine whether the underlined value is a parameter or a statistic.

7) In a survey conducted in the town of Atherton, 25% of adult respondents reported that they had 7)
been involved in at least one car accident in the past ten years.
A) parameter B) statistic

8) Mark retired from competitive athletics last year. In his career as a sprinter he had competed in the 8)
100-meters event a total of 328 times. His average time for these 328 races was 10.25 seconds.
A) parameter B) statistic

Identify whether the statement describes inferential statistics or descriptive statistics.

9) The average age of the students in a statistics class is 22 years. 9)
A) descriptive statistics B) inferential statistics

10) The chances of winning the California Lottery are one chance in twenty-two million. 10)
A) descriptive statistics B) inferential statistics

11) From past figures, it is predicted that 41% of the registered voters in California will vote in the June 11)
primary.
A) inferential statistics B) descriptive statistics

Determine whether the data are qualitative or quantitative.

12) the colors of automobiles on a used car lot 12)
A) qualitative B) quantitative

13) the numbers on the shirts of a girl's soccer team 13)

A) quantitative B) qualitative

14) the number of complaint letters received by the United States Postal Service in a given day 14)
A) quantitative B) qualitative

Determine whether the study is an observational study or an experiment.

15) A scientist was studying the effects of a new fertilizer on crop yield. She randomly assigned half of 15)
the plots on a farm to group one and the remaining plots to group two. On the plots in group one,
the new fertilizer was used for a year. On the plots in group two, the old fertilizer was used. At the
end of the year the average crop yield for the plots in group one was compared with the average
crop yield for the plots in group two.
A) observational study B) experiment

16) A researcher obtained a random sample of 100 smokers and a random sample of 100 nonsmokers. 16)
After interviewing all 200 participants in the study, the researcher compared the rate of depression
among the smokers with the rate of depression among nonsmokers.
A) observational study B) experiment

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Use the given frequency distribution to find the
(a) class width.
(b) class midpoints of the first class.
(c) class boundaries of the first class.

17) Height (in inches) 17)

Class Frequency, f
50 - 52 5
53 - 55 8
56 - 58 12
59 - 61 13
62 - 64 11
A) (a) 3 B) (a) 2 C) (a) 3 D) (a) 2
(b) 51 (b) 51.5 (b) 51 (b) 51.5
(c) 50-52 (c) 50-52 (c) 49.5-52.5 (c) 49.5-52.5

Provide an appropriate response.

18) A city in the Pacific Northwest recorded its highest temperature at 91 degrees Fahrenheit and its 18)
lowest temperature at 12 degrees Fahrenheit for a particular year. Use this information to find the
upper and lower limits of the first class if you wish to construct a frequency distribution with 10
classes.
A) 7-17 B) 12-20 C) 12-18 D) 12-19

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.

19) Approximately what percentage of the people aged 25-40 had a systolic blood pressure reading 19)
between 110 and 139 inclusive?
A) 89% B) 59% C) 74% D) 39%

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Construct a pie chart representing the given data set.
20) The following data give the distribution of the types of houses in a town containing 20,000 houses. 20)

House Type Frequency Relative Frequency

Cape 5000 0.25
Garrison 7000 0.35
Split 8000 0.40

A) B)

The pie chart shows the percentage of votes received by each candidate in the student council presidential election. Use
the pie chart to answer the question.
21) 21)
Student Council President

Gina
24%
Ming
30% Ben
18%
Jim
28%

500 total votes

Who got the most votes?

A) Jim B) Ben C) Ming D) Gina

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Provide an appropriate response.
22) The bar graph below shows the political party affiliation of 1000 registered U.S. voters. What 22)
percentage of the 1000 registered U.S. voters belonged to one of the traditional two parties
(Democratic and Republican)?

A) 35% B) 40% C) 25% D) 75%

23) Determine whether the approximate shape of the distribution in the histogram is symmetric, 23)
uniform, skewed left, skewed right, or none of these.

A) skewed left B) symmetric C) uniform D) skewed right

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24) Determine whether the approximate shape of the distribution in the histogram is symmetric, 24)
uniform, skewed left, skewed right, or none of these.

A) symmetric B) uniform C) skewed left D) skewed right

25) The top 14 speeds, in miles per hour, for Pro-Stock drag racing over the past two decades are listed 25)
below. Find the mean speed.

181.1 202.2 190.1 201.4 191.3 201.4 192.2

201.2 193.2 201.2 194.5 199.2 196.0 196.2

A) 210.9 B) 201.2 C) 195.8 D) 196.1

26) The scores of the top ten finishers in a recent golf tournament are listed below. Find the median 26)
score.

67 67 68 71 72 72 72 72 73 76

A) 72 B) 71 C) 73 D) 67

27) The top 14 speeds, in miles per hour, for Pro-Stock drag racing over the past two decades are listed 27)
below. Find the mode speed.

181.1 202.2 190.1 201.4 191.3 201.4 192.2

201.2 193.2 201.2 194.5 199.2 196.0 196.2

A) 201.2 B) no mode
C) bimodal: 201.2, 201.4 D) 201.4

28) The heights (in inches) of 20 adult males are listed below. Find the range of the data set. 28)

70 72 71 70 69 73 69 68 70 71
67 71 70 74 69 68 71 71 71 72
A) 6.5 B) 6 C) 5 D) 7

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 29) Find the sample standard deviation. 29)

15 42 53 7 9 12 14 28 47
A) 17.8 B) 15.8 C) 29.1 D) 16.6

Use the grouped data formulas to find the indicated mean or standard deviation.
30) The heights of a random sample of professional basketball players are summarized in the 30)
frequency distribution below. Approximate the sample mean. Round your answer to one decimal
place.

Height (in.) Frequency

70 - 71 1
72 - 73 6
74 - 75 8
76 - 77 12
78 - 79 9
80 - 81 5
82 - 83 2

A) 13.5 in. B) 76.6 in. C) 74.9 in. D) 78.4 in.

31) A random sample of 25 community service projects is selected and the scores are recorded. The 31)
results are shown in the histogram. Estimate the sample mean.

A) 96.9 B) 97.3 C) 96.7 D) 97.1

32) For the following data set, approximate the sample standard deviation. 32)

Height (in inches) Frequency

50-52 5
53-55 8
56-58 12
59-61 13
62-64 11

A) 3.85 B) 2.57 C) 1.86 D) 0.98

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Provide an appropriate response.
33) Many firms use on-the-job training to teach their employees computer programming. Suppose 33)
you work in the personnel department of a firm that just finished training a group of its employees
to program, and you have been requested to review the performance of one of the trainees on the
final test that was given to all trainees. The mean and standard deviation of the test scores are 81
and 4, respectively, and the distribution of scores is bell-shaped and symmetric. Suppose the
trainee in question received a score of 72. Compute the trainee's z-score.
A) z = -2.25 B) z = 2.25 C) z = 0.84 D) z = -0.84

34) For the mathematics part of the SAT the mean is 514 with a standard deviation of 113, and for the 34)
mathematics part of the ACT the mean is 20.6 with a standard deviation of 5.1. Bob scores a 660 on
the SAT and a 27 on the ACT. Use z-scores to determine on which test he performed better.
A) SAT B) ACT

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Answer Key
Testname: 1342 PRACTICE EXAM 1

1) A
2) B
3) A
4) A
5) C
6) D
7) B
8) A
9) A
10) B
11) A
12) A
13) B
14) A
15) B
16) A
17) C
18) D
19) C
20) A
21) C
22) D
23) D
24) C
25) C
26) A
27) C
28) D
29) A
30) B
31) D
32) A
33) A
34) A