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WGU C784 - APPLIED HEALTHCARE STATISTICS

PRE-ASSESSMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)

What is the Fahrenheit equivalent for a patient's room that needs to be kept
at 25 degrees Celsius?
A. 70°
B. 75°
C. 77°
D. 80° - ANS ✓C. 77°

What is the Celsius equivalent for a patient who is running a fever of 102
degrees Fahrenheit?
A. 37.9°C
B. 38.9°C
C. 39.9°C
D. 40.9°C - ANS ✓38.9°C

What is the value of x in this equation? 2x + 3 = 13

A. 5
B. 10
C. 76
D. 106 - ANS ✓A. 5

Solve the following equation: x − 5/4 = 2/3. What is the value of x?

A. 3/12
B. 7/12

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C. 10/12
D. 23/12 - ANS ✓D. 23/12

Question #21: Battery lifetime is normally distributed for large samples.

The mean lifetime is 500 days, and the standard deviation is 61 days. Which
percent of batteries have lifetimes longer than 561 days?
A. 16
B. 21
C. 26
D. 31 - ANS ✓A. 16

Question #22: Five hundred values are normally distributed with a mean of
125 and a standard deviation of 10. Which percent of the values lies
between the interval 115-135?
A. 50
B. 68
C. 95
D. 99 - ANS ✓B. 68

Question #23: A paediatric unit wants to know what the median age is of its
adolescent population so they can focus on activities for these clients. The
unit staff recorded the ages of 12 adolescents over a three month period:
Age(s): Frequency(ies):
13 1
16 2
17 2
18 3
19 4
What is the median age?
A. 18.6

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B. 17
C. 17.2
D. 18 - ANS ✓D. 18

Question #24: A survey asked residents to rate their community hospital on

a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most happy with the hospital services.
The data shows a positively skewed distribution. How are the mean,
median and mode related?
A. Mean < Median < Mode
B. Mode < Median < Mean
C. Mean < Mode < Median
D. Median < Mode < Mean - ANS ✓B. Mode < Median < Mean

Question # 25: An intensive care unit patient has frequent systolic blood
pressure measures represented in the following data set: 140, 150, 154,
154, 170, 176, 180. What is the mode?
A. 140
B. 154
C. 160.57
D. 170 - ANS ✓B. 154

Question # 29: The following weights were recorded for children in a

paediatrician’s office: 93, 84, 70, 48, 59, 66, 88, 94, 84, 67, 74, 58, 82. The
analyst wants to see the distribution of the weights, but still be able to see
the individual values. Which method of display should be used?
A. Box plot
B. Stem plot
C. Bar chart
D. Pie chart - ANS ✓B. Stem plot

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Question # 30: The following heart rates were recorded for patients in an
intensive care unit: 98, 88, 74, 83, 76, 99, 81, 73, 60, 66, 88, 94, 73, 82, 95,
85, 76. Which method of display is appropriate to see the exact values of
individual observations?
A. Stem plot
B. Pie chart
C. Bar chart
D. Histogram - ANS ✓A. Stem plot

Given the following dataset representing hours of overtime worked by

nurses in one week:
[Nurse A] 3
[Nurse B] 7
[Nurse C] 2
[Nurse D] 4
What should be used to display the data?
A. Box plot
B. Stem plot
C. Bar chart
D. Histogram - ANS ✓C. Bar chart

Question # 35: A study was conducted on the possible relationship between

gender and whether or not they exercise. Which type of classification is
this?
A. Categorical to categorical
B. Categorical to quantitative
C. Quantitative to quantitative
D. Quantitative to categorical - ANS ✓A. Categorical to categorical

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Question #36: A study was conducted on the possible relationship between
age and diastolic blood pressure. Which type of classification is this?
A. Categorical to categorical
B. Quantitative to categorical
C. Categorical to quantitative
D. Quantitative to quantitative - ANS ✓D. Quantitative to quantitative

Question #37: A study was conducted on the possible relationship between

a categorical variable and a quantitative variable. Which type of graphical
display is appropriate for displaying this relationship?
A. Scatterplot
B. Two-way table
C. Decision table
D. Side-by-side box plot - ANS ✓D. Side-by-side box plot

Question #38: A study is conducted to determine the most common blood

pressure readings among sleep apnoea patients who use a continuous
positive airway pressure machine and those who do not. Which numerical
measure is appropriate?
A. Regression analysis
B. Five-number summary
C. Correlation coefficient
D. Conditional percentages - ANS ✓B. Five-number summary

Question # 39: A study is conducted on the possible relationship between

gender and patients with or without hypertension. Which numerical
measure is appropriate?
A. Regression analysis
B. Five-number summary
C. Correlation coefficient

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D. Conditional percentages - ANS ✓D. Conditional percentages

Question #40: A study is conducted on the possible relationship between

blood pressure and haemoglobin A1c. Which numerical measure is
appropriate?
A. Standard deviation
B. Five-number summary
C. Correlation coefficient
D. Conditional percentages - ANS ✓C. Correlation coefficient

Question #41: A physician collects retrospective data from smoking and

non-smoking patients to determine the relationship between smoking and
lung cancer.
Results Lung Cancer No Lung Cancer Total
Smoker 77% 23% 100%
Non-Smoker 22% 78% 100%
Which data indicate the relationship between smoking and lung cancer?
A. Non-smokers are less likely to have lung cancer than smokers because
23% is less than 77%.
B. Smokers are more likely to have lung cancer than non-smokers because
23% is greater than 22%.
C. Non-smokers are less likely to have lung cancer than smokers because
78% is greater than 77%.
D. Smokers are more likely than non-smokers to have lung cancer because
77% is greater than 22%. - ANS ✓D. Smokers are more likely than non-
smokers to have lung cancer because 77% is greater than 22%.

Question #42: A researcher found the following results when studying the
number of patients who survived surgery at two different hospitals.
Hospital A Hospital B

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Died 3% 2%
Survived 97% 98%
What is true about the relationship between the survival rate and the
hospital?
A. Hospital B has a higher survival rate because 98% is higher than 97%.
B. Hospital A has a higher survival rate because 3% is higher than 2%.
C. Hospital B has a higher survival rate because 98% is higher than 2%.
D. Hospital A has a higher survival rate because 97% is higher than 3%. -
ANS ✓A. Hospital B has a higher survival rate because 98% is higher than 97%.

Question #43: A researcher studied patients' preferences for physician

attire based on setting.
Physician's Office Emergency Room
Casual and white coat 17% 10%
Formal and white coat 67% 24%
Scrubs 7% 65%
Business suit 9% 1%
What is true about the preferred attire for physicians in an office?
A. Patients prefer their physician to wear scrubs instead of casual clothes
and a white coat because 65% is greater than 17%.
B. Patients do not prefer their physician to wear scrubs instead of casual
clothes and a white coat because 7% is less than 9%.
C. Patients prefer their physician to wear formal clothes and a white coat
instead of casual clothes and a white coat because 67% is greater than
17%.
D. Patients do not prefer their physician to wear scrubs instead of formal
clothes and a white coat because 65% is less than 67%. - ANS ✓C. Patients
prefer their physician to wear formal clothes and a white coat instead of casual
clothes and a white coat because 67% is greater than 17%.

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Question #50: In a recent trial, a researcher concluded that the more
calories a person consumes, the more likely they are to have a high BMI.
What kind of relationship is this?
A. Positive causation
B. Negative causation
C. Positive association
D. Negative association - ANS ✓C. Positive association

Question #55: A paediatric practice has six physicians, four of which are
male. A newborn patient is assigned to a physician randomly. What is the
probability that the baby will be assigned to a physician that is not male?
A. .17
B. .33
C. .5
D. .67 - ANS ✓B. .33

Question #57: A fair coin is flipped. What is the likelihood of the coin
landing on heads if it is flipped again?
A. .17
B. .2
C. .25
D. .5 - ANS ✓D. .5

Question #58: Researchers surveyed 100 patients on their preferred

procedure. Their preferences include the following:
35 - Infusions
30 - Incision/drainage
25 - Wound care
10 - Vital signs

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What is the relative frequency for patients choosing wound care as their
preferred procedure?
A. .1
D. .25
C. .3
D. .35 - ANS ✓B. .25

Question #59: A street performer is planning to flip a coin three times.

Assume that the coin landing heads up or landing tails up is equally likely.
What is the probability of the coin landing heads up exactly two times?
A. .25
B. .375
C. .5
D. .875 - ANS ✓B. .375

Question #60: A box contains one red ball, one purple ball, and one blue
ball. Two balls are drawn from the box one after the other without
replacing the first ball. What is the probability of drawing a red ball
second?
A. .33
B. .5
C. .67
D. .83 - ANS ✓A. .33

Question #61: Three women are pregnant with one child each. What are the
possible outcomes for the babies' sex, assigned as either male (M) or female
(F)?
A. MMM, MFM, FMF, FFF
B. MMM, MMF, FFM, FFF
C. MMM, MMF, MFM, MFF, FMM, FMF, FFM, FFF

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D. MMM, MMF, MFM, MFF, FMM, FFM, FFF, FMM - ANS ✓C. MMM, MMF, MFM,
MFF, FMM, FMF, FFM, FFF

Question #62: A physician is reviewing clinical results and finds that the
patient has an elevated temperature and a high cholesterol value. On
average, patients present with an elevated temperature 20% of the time, a
high cholesterol 72% of the time, and the probability of both is 14.4%.
What is true about the results?
A. The values are related.
B. The values are disjoint.
C. The values are dependent.
D. The values are independent. - ANS ✓D. The values are independent.

Question #63: Studies show that people who live in very cold climates have
a 30% chance of getting influenza and a 15% chance of getting appendicitis
during the winter. What is the probability a person has both diagnoses,
rounded to the nearest percent?
A. 5%
B. 15%
C. 30%
D. 45% - ANS ✓A. 5%

Question #64: As part of an exercise regimen, the probability of a person

running outside is .45, the probability of a person joining a gym is .4, and
the probability of a person both running outside and joining a gym is .25.
What is the probability that a person either runs or joins a gym?
A. .6
B. .65
C. .7
D. .85 - ANS ✓A. .6

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Question #65: A specialist saw 27 patients and made the following

diagnoses: Seven had type 2 diabetes. Nine had coronary heart disease.
Three had both type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease. How is the
probability of a patient being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or coronary
heart disease calculated?
A. 7/27 + 9/27 - 3/27
B. 7/27 - 9/27 - 3/27
C. 1 - (7/27 + 9/27 - 3/27)
D. 1 - (7/27 - 9/27 - 3/27) - ANS ✓A. 7/27 + 9/27 - 3/27

Question #66: A rural community clinic sees eight patients per hour. The
probability that a patient is diagnosed with high blood pressure is 0.63. The
patients are assumed to be diagnosed independently of other patients.
What is the probability that none of the patients will be diagnosed with
high blood pressure?
A. .37 to the power of 8 (.37 times itself 8 times)
B. .63 to the power of 8 (.63 times itself 8 times)
C. 1 — (.37) to the power of 8 (1 - (.37) times itself 8 times))
D. 1 — (.63) to the power of 8 (1 - (.63) times itself 8 times)) - ANS ✓A. .37 to
the power of 8 (.37 times itself 8 times)

Question #67: A county has 625 group physician practices that provide the
following services:
300 provide primary care services
225 provide specialty care services
100 provide both primary care services and specialty care services
How is the probability of a physician group practice providing primary care
services or specialty care services calculated?
A. 300/625 + 225/625 - 100/625

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B. 300/625 + 225/625 + 100/625
C. 1 - (300/625 + 225/625 - 100/625
D. 1 - ( 300/625 + 225/625 + 100/625) - ANS ✓A. 300/625 + 225/625 -
100/625

Question #68: A hospital's financial reimbursement payor mix indicates

35% of the patients have Medicare and 15% have Medicaid. Of those who
have Medicare, there is a 10% chance they also have Medicaid. What is the
probability that a hospital patient has both Medicare and Medicaid?
A. .005
B. .015
C. .035
D. .5 - ANS ✓C. .035

Question #69: 14% of people will contract Virus A over the course of their
life, and 18% contract Virus B. 10.62% of people will contract both viruses.
What is the probability, to the nearest percent, that a person who contacts
Virus B will also contract Virus A?
A. 11%
B. 21%
C. 59%
D. 76% - ANS ✓C. 59%

Question #70: A medical center treated many patients with a given illness.
Of those patients, 37% had a sore throat, and 36% had itchy eyes.
Moreover, 51% of patients who had itchy eyes also had a sore throat. What
is the probability that a patient had both a sore throat and itchy eyes?
A. 18.36%
B. 18.87%
C. 54.64%

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D. 97.30% - ANS ✓A. 18.36%

Given the following set of numbers: 3.3, -2.3, -16, 25. What are the square
roots of the whole number?
A. +/- 2.3
B. +/- 3.3
C. +/- 4
D. +/- 5 - ANS ✓D. +/- 5

Given the following set of numbers: 10, 2.5, -4, -4.5, 5. What is the sum when
adding together only the whole numbers?
A. 5.5
B. 11
C. 12.5
D. 15 - ANS ✓D. 15

Given the following expression: 4 + 7 × (6 - 3)2. What is the answer using

proper order of operations?
A. 25
B. 46
C. 67
D. 99 - ANS ✓C. 67

Given the following expression: 5 x (30 - 27)2 + 4. What is the correct

answer using the proper order of operations?
A. 34
B. 49
C. 65
D. 81 - ANS ✓B. 49

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What is the greatest common factor of 132 and the square root of 121 using
prime factorization?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 10
D. 11 - ANS ✓D. 11

What is the greatest common factor of 24 and 84 using prime factorization?

A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 12 - ANS ✓D. 12

What is 3/14 - 1/7?

A. 1/14
B. 2/7
C. 5/14
D. 3/2 - ANS ✓A. 1/14

What is 2/3 + 1/4?

A. 11/12
B. 3/12
C. 3/7
D. 8/3 - ANS ✓A. 11/12

A patient's protein intake for today has been 15.76g, 8.49g, and 22.58g.
What is the total protein intake rounded to the nearest tenth of a decimal?
A. 46.5g
B. 46.8g
C. 46.9g

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D. 47g - ANS ✓B. 46.8g

Given the equation: (.5475 - .3025) x .15. What is the solution rounded to
the nearest thousandth?
A. .03675
B. .0368
C. .368
D. .037 - ANS ✓D. .037

An intravenous drip is infused at a rate of 4.5 millilitres per minute. How

many millilitres are infused per hour?
A. .075mL
B. 2.7mL
C. 75mL
D. 270mL - ANS ✓D. 270mL

A patient's medication was increased by 40 milligrams. What is the percent

increase in the medication if the original medication was 180 milligrams?
A. 2.2%
B. 4.5%
C. 22.2%
D. 45% - ANS ✓C. 22.2%

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