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I only
B.
II only
C.
III only
2. You have a rather strange die: Three faces are marked with the letter A, two
faces with the letter B, and one face with the letter C. You roll the die until you
get a B. What is the probability that the first B appears on the first or the
second roll?
A.
.333
B.
.704
C.
.556
D. .037
E.
.296
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3. You are going to construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference
between two independent sample means. There are 12 subjects in one sample
and 11 in the other. You think that the two populations have the same standard
deviation, and so decide to use a pooled estimator of the population variance.
How many degrees of freedom would you use for this t procedure?
A.
21
B.
23
C.
10
D. 12
E.
22
30.97
B.
3.03
C.
34
56
28
45
25
68
34
49
30
58
32
63
36
66
23
62
29
D. 30.97
E.
3.03
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5. Which of these distributions has the largest standard deviation? Assume that
the range is the same for each histogram shown here.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
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B.
C.
it helps ensure that treatment and control groups are as alike as possible.
7. You have a rather strange die: Three faces are marked with the letter A, two
faces with the letter B, and one face with the letter C. If you were to roll this
die, what is the probability that at least one of the first two rolls would be a B?
A.
5/9
B.
1/3
C.
1/9
D. 4/9
E.
7/9
8. You want to see if a coin is fair. You flip it 5 times and count the number of
heads. If H is the number of heads obtained in five flips of the coin, what is the
P-value of the test when H equals 4?
A.
5/32
B.
6/32
C.
7/32
D. 8/32
E.
9/32
9. You are going to construct a 99% t confidence interval for a population mean
based on a sample of size 22. What is the critical value of t (t*) you will use to
construct the interval?
A.
2.819
B.
2.845
C.
2.080
D. 2.831
E.
2.518
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10. Franny is told that the z-score for her SAT test score was 1.2 compared to all
twelfth-grade girls who took the test. Which of the following best describes
what this means?
A.
Only 1.2% of the twelfth-grade girls taking this test had scores higher than Franny.
B.
Franny's score is 1.2 points higher than the average score for all twelfth-grade girls
who took the SAT.
C.
D. Franny's score is 1.2 standard deviations above the mean of twelfth-grade girls who
took the SAT.
E.
Franny's score is 1.2 times greater than the average score for all twelfth-grade girls
who took the SAT.
one in which neither the experimenter nor the subject are aware of which treatment
the subject receives.
B.
C.
one in which the subject is unaware of whether they are receiving the treatment or
not, but the researcher is aware.
D. one in which groups are matched on a specific set of criteria so as to eliminate any
obvious differences between the groups.
E.
12. Sometimes t procedures are referred to as robust. Which of the following best
describes what this means?
A.
B.
They can be used in many different situations, unlike less robust measures.
C.
They are still useable even when the assumptions necessary for their use are
violated.
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13. A Statistics teacher decides to give A's only to students who score in the top
15% on the final exam. The scores are normally distributed with a mean of 78
and a standard deviation of 7 (this is also the population standard deviation).
To the nearest integer value, what is the lowest score a student could earn and
still receive an A?
A.
79
B.
80
C.
82
D. 83
E.
85
C
D
E
Total
A.
12/35
B.
12/55
C.
23/70
Total
23
15
12
50
32
15
23
70
55
30
35
120
D. 35/70
E.
23/35
I only
B.
II only
C.
III only
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16. Consider the following set of sample data: 21, 24, 25, 32, 35, 31, 29, 28. Which
of the following will give a 95% confidence interval for the mean of the
population from which this sample was drawn?
A.
B.
28.125 2.365(4.31/ 8 )
C.
28.125 2.306(4.61/ 8 )
D. 28.125 2.365(4.61/ 8 )
E.
28.125 2.306(4.31/ 8 )
17. Which of the following are necessary in order to use a normal approximation
to the sampling distribution of a sample proportion?
I.
The population from which the sample was drawn must be at least 10 times
larger than the sample.
II. The population from which the samples are drawn must be normal.
III. The sample must be a simple random sample from the population.
A.
I only
B.
II only
C.
III only
18. What are the mean and median of the data presented in the table below?
Value
15
18
19
23
27
A.
21.7, 23
B.
21.7, 19
C.
21.7, 20
Relative
Frequency
.15
.10
.20
.25
.30
Cumulative
Frequency
.15
.25
.45
.70
1.00
D. 20.4, 23
E.
20.4, 19
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19. A population is strongly skewed to the left with a mean of 18 and a standard
deviation of 4. You draw samples of size 4 from this population and calculate
the mean of each sample. Which of the following shows the mean, standard
deviation, and shape of the sampling distribution of the sample mean?
A.
B.
C.
20. What is the "five-number summary" of the data given in the table below?
Value
15
18
19
23
27
Relative
Frequency
.15
.10
.20
.25
.30
Cumulative
Frequency
.15
.25
.45
.70
1.00
A. 15-18-19-23-27
B. 15-18-19-23-23
C. 15-18-23-27-27
D. 15-18-18-23-27
E. 15-19-23-23-27
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21. Given the tree diagram shown here, what is P(A | E)?
D
E
.7
.3
.3
.1
D
E
A.
7/11
B.
3/4
C.
4/7
.4
.3
.5
.4
D. 3/10
E.
.21
The results of this study are meaningless because this was an observational study
and not an experiment.
B.
Self-selection is not a factor when comparing the performance of the two groups.
C.
D. Though there is a relationship between the type of course and performance, this
study does not show that there is a cause-and-effect relationship.
E.
There is too much sampling error in this type of study to be able to make
conclusions.
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23. The table below gives (in seconds) the time required for six right-handed
people to complete a test of dexterity, first with their left hand, then with their
right. You want to perform a t test to see if there is a significant difference
between the times required for the left and right hands. The appropriate
number of degrees of freedom for this test is:
Alice
Bob
Carrie
Doug
Eleanor
Frank
A.
B.
12
C.
11
Left Hand
23
Right Hand
19
19
17
26
20
22
18
18
20
19
20
D. 10
E.
24. Two variables are related so that the slope of their regression line is 6, and so
that sy = 4.2 and s x = .35 . What is r, the correlation coefficient for the two
variables?
A.
1/12
B.
72
C.
.6
D. .5
E.
.54
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25. All 32 seniors at a High School took both the AP Exam in Statistics and the AP
Exam in Calculus. Their mean score on the Statistics exam was 2.57 with a
standard deviation of .7. Their mean score on the Calculus exam was 2.78 with
a standard deviation of .64. If we combine these tests into a single score, the
correct mean and standard deviation are:
A.
5.35; .7 +.64
B.
5.35,
.7 + .64
C.
5.35,
.72 + .642
The mean is 5.35, but you cannot determine the standard deviation from this
information.
26. You want to research a new pill you hope will relieve the effects of arthritis in
persons over 50 years of age. You divide your volunteers into two groups: one
consisting of people aged 50-60 and one consisting of people over 60. You
further divide each of those groups by gender. The members of each of these
four groups are randomly assigned to treatment and control groups with the
treatment group receiving the new pill and the control group receiving the
placebo. The basic design of this study is:
A.
B.
C.
D. completely randomized.
E.
27. The final exam scores in freshman English at a large high school are normally
distributed with a mean of 84% and a standard deviation of 14. If 450 students
took the exam, approximately how many students scored between 70% and
80%?
A.
103
B.
125
C.
.2289
D. 99
E.
95
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28. You want to construct a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of patients
who will experience adverse reactions to a new medication. Because side
effects can be rather severe, you desire a margin of error of no more than .05.
You have no idea, prior to doing the research, of what the true proportion
might be. What is the minimum number of subjects you will need in your
study?
A.
384
B.
385
C.
19.6
D. 1537
E.
390
29. A binomial event is observed 50 times. The probability of the event being
successful is .3. Let X equal the count of successes of the event during the 50
trials. What are X and X ?
A.
15; 3.24
B.
.3; .15
C.
15; 10.5
D. .15; 3.24
E.
15; 3.87
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30. You want to obtain a simple random sample of size 30 of all students in the
junior class. Assume there are 150 boys and 150 girls in the class. Which of the
following methods will produce such a sample?
I.
Number the students from 1 to 300. Randomly select one of the first 10
students, then take every tenth student on the list after that.
II. Number the students from 1 to 300. Use a random number generator to
select 30 numbers from 1 to 300. Your sample consists of the students
whose names correspond to the generated numbers.
III. Number the boys from 1 to 150 and number the girls from 151 to 300.
Randomly select 15 boys by using a random number generator to pick 15
numbers from 1 to 150. Then select 15 girls by using a random number
generator to pick 15 numbers from 151 to 300.
A.
I only
B.
II only
C.
III only
31. A study found that the hours students spend watching television and their
grade point averages (GPAs) have a correlation of r = .71. Given this
information, which of the following statements is most accurate?
A.
B.
About half of the variation in GPAs can be explained by hours spent watching
television.
C.
For each decrease in one hour of television watching, there will be a corresponding
increase of .7 in a student's GPA.
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A.
B.
p > .25
C.
5.262
B.
182,810
C.
172
D. 188
E.
193
34. You have a table of random single-digit numbers that has an equal number of
every digit from zero to nine. If you start at the first digit on the table and
begin moving to the right, what is the probability that you do not land on an
even number (2, 4, 6, or 8) until the fifth digit?
A.
.4
B.
.0768
C.
.05184
D. .01024
E.
.031104
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B.
C.
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36. Use this computer output to determine r, the correlation coefficient between
Method 1 and Method 2.
Descriptive Statistics
Variable
METHOD 1
METHOD 2
Variable
METHOD 1
METHOD 2
N
12
12
Mean Median
64.42 66.50
63.25 63.50
Min
52.00
53.00
Max
74.00
73.00
Q1
57.25
55.75
TrMean
64.70
63.30
StDev
7.10
7.28
SEMean
2.05
2.10
Q3
70.25
69.75
Regression Analysis
A.
.241
B.
.380
C.
.058
Coef
40.98
0.3705
R-sq =
Stdev
18.17
0.2856
t-ratio
p
2.25 0.048
1.30 0.224
R-sq(adj) = 5.8%
D. .145
E.
.027
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37. Which of the following gives a 99% confidence interval for the slope of the
regression line from this computer output?
Descriptive Statistics
Variable
METHOD 1
METHOD 2
Variable
METHOD 1
METHOD 2
N
12
12
Mean Median
64.42 66.50
63.25 63.50
Min
52.00
53.00
Max
74.00
73.00
Q1
57.25
55.75
TrMean
64.70
63.30
StDev
7.10
7.28
SEMean
2.05
2.10
Q3
70.25
69.75
Regression Analysis
Coef
40.98
0.3705
R-sq =
A.
40.98 3.169(.286)
B.
.371 3.055(.286)
C.
.371 3.169(6.892)
Stdev
18.17
0.2856
t-ratio
p
2.25 0.048
1.30 0.224
R-sq(adj) = 5.8%
D. .371 3.055(40.98)
E.
.371 3.169(.286)
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38. Look at the scatterplot pictured here. Regarding the point marked A, which of
these are true?
I. A is better described as an influential point rather than an outlier.
II. Removing A from the scatterplot would cause the correlation to increase.
III. Removing A from the scatterplot would cause the slope of the regression
line to decrease significantly.
A.
I only
B.
I and II only
C. II only
D.
E.
III only
39. The IQs of students at a very prestigious technical university are normally
distributed with a mean of 124 and a standard deviation of 8. What is the
probability that a person selected at random from this population will have an
IQ below 100?
A.
.023
B.
.0013
C.
.005
D. .9987
E.
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40. A survey of 40 people finds that 22 prefer Sugar Crunchies breakfast cereal to
Honey Yummies. Another completely independent survey finds that 24 of 50
people surveyed prefer Sugar Crunchies to Honey Yummies. For a significance
test of the hypothesis H0 : p1 = p2 , where p1 is the proportion favoring Sugar
Crunchies from the first survey population, and p2 is the proportion from the
second survey population, what is the standard error of the difference between
the proportions?
A.
B.
1
22 24 1
+
40 50 40 50
23
22 23
22
1
1
50
40 50
40
+
50
40
C.
1
46 44 1
+
90 90 40 50
D.
1
22 24 1
+
90 90 40 50
E.
23
22 23
22
1
1
50
40 50
40
+
90
90
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After you finish answering these questions, correct your own work using the answer key
provided, then send your corrected work back to your instructor. You'll be scored on
whether you did the work, not on how many questions you answered correctly.
Questions 1-5 should take about 10-15 minutes each. Question 6 is an "Investigative Task,"
and should take about 20-30 minutes. You should do all you can in no more than 90
minutes.
It's important to stay within the time limit to see how you'd do under real test conditions.
Read over all the questions first, and do the questions you feel most confident about. Then
go back and do the questions you're less confident about. Stop at 90 minutes, and then use
the answer key to correct your work.
If you can't finish all the questions in 90 minutes, go back later and do the problems you
weren't able to finish.
1. You draw samples of size n from the population of all pennies in circulation. The random
variable of interest is the mean age of the pennies in the sample (current year pennies
are considered to be zero years old). The distribution of ages of pennies (starting at 0) is
known to be skewed markedly to the right. That is, there are more recently minted
pennies than older pennies in the population. One scholar claims that the mean age of
all pennies in circulation is 7.4 years with a standard deviation of 3.3 years. Assume that
this scholar is correct. Discuss the mean, standard deviation, and shape of the sampling
distribution of sample means of the ages of pennies for each of the given sample sizes.
Where possible, give precise values.
A. n = 5
B. n = 15
C. n = 40
2. A sports car manufacturer paints its cars silver, white, black, and red in the following
proportions:
Color:
Proportion:
Silver
.2
White
.3
Black
.1
Red
.4
We know that 40% of these cars are manufactured with tan leather upholstery while the
remaining 60% are manufactured with gray leather.
A. Assuming that the choice of exterior color and leather color are independent,
what is the probability that a randomly selected sports car from this
manufacturer will be white with gray upholstery?
B. Assuming that we know the car has tan upholstery, what is the probability that
the car is either silver or white?
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Prime Lending
Rate (y)
5.2
8
10.8
7.9
6.8
6.9
9
A. What is the predicted prime lending rate when the inflation rate stands at 6%?
B. What is the value of the residual when the inflation rate is 5.8%?
C. Interpret the slope of the regression line for this situation.
D. An eager economist uses these data to predict that the prime lending rate
would be 16.26 if the inflation rate rose to 20%. Comment on this prediction.
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5. The Director of Student Activities is concerned that she has not hired enough security for
the Sadie Hawkins Day dance, and wants to know approximately how many students will
be attending. If more than 25% of the student body is planning on going to the dance,
she will need to hire more security. She sends out a survey to 300 students, and out of
the 285 who respond, 82 say they plan to attend.
A. On the basis of this survey, should the Director of Student Activities hire more
security? Use appropriate statistical evidence to support your conclusion.
B. There were 15 people who didn't return their surveys. Suppose they had. Is it
possible that the Student Activities Director's decision would have been
different?
6. Suppose you have a friend on the school basketball team but, unfortunately, he is not a
good free throw shooter. Over the course of his career, he has only made 40% of his
shots. Otherwise, he is a good player and gets fouled a lot so he shoots 10 free throws a
game, on average. In the biggest game of the season, he does very well and makes 6
out of 10 free throw attempts.
A. Assuming that each shot is independent, set up the expression you would use
to determine the exact probability that your friend actually makes 6 or more
free throws in a given game.
B. Using the set of random numbers shown here, explain how you would set up a
simulation to determine the probability of making 6 or more free throws out of
10 attempts if your probability of making any one free throw is .4.
98713
51623
21826
41970
04853
19464
65847
94930
19537
00796
57512
53436
96270
18910
78602
49898
08320
97988
17433
54962
84837
45677
37221
36753
42771
52245
46304
07174
41545
39128
38816
71946
51855
01058
96541
62042
17871
00969
47896
47221
76406
88983
24384
75215
39264
89744
25948
98095
35996
05585
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TI-83 screens are used with the permission of the publisher. Copyright 1996, Texas
Instruments, Incorporated.
MINITAB is a trademark of Minitab, Inc., and is used herein with the owner's permission.
Portions of MINITAB Statistical Software input and output contained in this course are
printed with permission of Minitab, Inc.
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