practice test
practice test
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
Use the Venn diagram to identify the population and the sample.
3) 3)
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
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
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
14) the number of complaint letters received by the United States Postal Service in a given day 14)
A) quantitative B) qualitative
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.
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)
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%
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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)?
23) Determine whether the approximate shape of the distribution in the histogram is symmetric, 23)
uniform, skewed left, skewed right, or none of these.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
32) For the following data set, approximate the sample standard deviation. 32)
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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