Name: __________________________ Date: _____________

1. Classifying the fruit in a basket as apple, orange, or banana, is an example of the

___________ level of measurement?
A) nominal
B) ordinal
C) interval
D) ratio
2. What is the midpoint of the class 10-14 ?
A) 12.5
B) 12
C) 5
D) 4

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3. Which of the following is a frequency polygon?

A)
15
10
5
0
0

10

20

30

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

B)

C)
15
10
5
0
40

50

60

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70

D)

4. An automobile dealer wants to construct a pie graph to represent types of cars sold in
July. He sold 72 cars, 16 of which were convertibles. How many degrees should be
used for the convertibles section ?
A) 60
B) 80
C) 100
D) 50
5. What type of graph is the figure below?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Pareto chart
pictograph
ogive
pie graph

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6. Which of the following is the properly rounded mean for the given data?
7, 8, 13, 9, 10, 11
A) 10
B) 9.7
C) 9.67
D) 9
7. What is the mean of the following data set?
8, 12, 15, 16, 17
A) 11.0
B) 13.6
C) 15.0
D) 18.4
8. Find the mode for the following data?
5, 4, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 5, 3, 4
A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 6
9. Determine the range for the following data set.
4, 7, 3, 16, 5, 22, 8
A) 4
B) 3
C) 14
D) 19
10. The average resident of Metro City produces 630 pounds of solid waste each year, and
the standard deviation is approximately 85 pounds. Use Chebyshev's theorem to find the
weight range that contains at least 75% of all residents' annual garbage weights.
A) Between 545 and 715 pounds
B) Between 290 and 970 pounds
C) Between 375 and 885 pounds
D) Between 460 and 800 pounds
11. How many possible outcomes would there be if three coins were tossed once?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 6
D) 8

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12. If two dice are rolled one time, find the probability of getting a sum of 6.
1
A) 6
7
B) 36
5
C) 36
1
D) 12
13. In a fish tank, there are 28 goldfish, 8 angelfish, and 13 guppies. If a fish is selected at
random, find the probability that it is an angelfish or a guppy.
26
A) 43
21
B) 43
39
C) 43
22
D) 43
14. A coin is tossed 6 times. Find the probability that all 6 tosses are tails.
1
A) 3
1
B) 9
1
C) 6
1
D) 8
15. Evaluate the following: 7P3.
A) 210
B) 35
C) 5,040
D) 6

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16. The following distribution is not a probability distribution because

2
1
X
0.15
0.20
P(X)
A) the values of the variable are negative.
B) the probability values are not increasing.
C) the probability values do not add to 1.
D) the probability values are not discrete.

0
0.42

17. Which of the following variables are discrete?

i. the depth of a submarine
ii. the number of torpedoes on a submarine
iii. the speed of the submarine
A) ii
B) i and iii
C) i and ii
D) i, ii, and iii
18. Find the mean of the distribution shown.
X
1
P(X)
0.32
A) 0.50
B) 1.50
C) 1.17
D) 1.68

2
0.68

19. Give the variance of the following distribution?

X
P(X)
A) 1.83
B) 1.31
C) 1.25
D) 1.71

0
0.20

1
0.35

2
0.10

3
0.25

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4
0.10

1
0.12

2
0.27

20. What is the standard deviation of the following probability distribution?

A)
B)
C)
D)

X
P(X)
2.6
4.7
5.4
3.9

0
0.20

2
0.05

4
0.35

6
0.25

8
0.15

21. A coin is tossed five times. Find the probability of getting exactly three heads.
A) 0.125
B) 0.156
C) 0.800
D) 0.313
22. A jewelry supplier has a supply of earrings which are 20% platinum. A store owner
orders five sets of earrings from the supplier. If the supplier selects the pairs of earrings
at random, what is the chance that the jewelry store gets exactly two sets of platinum
pairs?
A) 0.5120
B) 0.1280
C) 0.2048
D) 0.0240
23. For a normal distribution curve with a mean of 17 and a standard deviation of 7, which
range of the variable defines an area under the curve corresponding to a probability of
approximately 68%?
A) from 13.5 to 20.5
B) from 10 to 24
C) from 17 to 31
D) from 3 to 31

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24. Find the area under the standard normal distribution curve between z = 0 and
z = 2.16 .

A)
B)
C)
D)

2.1600
0.9846
0.4846
0.3708

25. Find the area under the standard normal distribution curve between z = 2.05 and z =
2.05.

A)
B)
C)
D)

0.4938
0.4798
0.9596
0.9876

26. Find the probability P( z > 0.83) using the standard normal distribution.
A) 0.2673
B) 0.7673
C) 0.7327
D) 0.2327

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27. Find the z value that corresponds to the given area.

A)
B)
C)
D)

1.46
1.23
1.46
0.07

28. If a normally distributed group of test scores have a mean of 70 and a standard deviation
of 12, find the percentage of scores that will fall below 50.
A) 4.75%
B) 45.25%
C) 6.75%
D) 35.54%
29. The average height of flowering cherry trees in a certain nursery is 11 feet. If the heights
are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.6 feet, find the probability that a
tree is less than 13 feet tall.
A) 0.67
B) 0.89
C) 0.95
D) 0.78
30. In order to be accepted into a certain top university, applicants must score within the top
5% on the SAT exam. Given that the exam has a mean of 1000 and a standard deviation
of 200, what is the lowest possible score a student needs to qualify for acceptance into
the university?
A) 1400
B) 1330
C) 1250
D) 1100

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31. Find the probability P (0 < z < 1.67) , using the standard normal distribution.
A) 45.25%
B) 45.54%
C) 42.07%
D) 35.54%

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