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1. US Air has a flight to New York for $160 and United Airlines has a flight to New York for $200. Which
statement is true?
(A) The cost of the United flight is 25% more than US Air.
(B) The cost of the US Air flight is 80% less than the United flight. answer: A
(C) The cost of the United flight is 120% more than the US Air flight.
(D) The cost of the US Air flight is 25% less than United.
(E) The cost of the United flight is 20% more than US Air.
3. Suppose you could take all samples of size 64 from a population with a mean of 12 and a standard deviation
of 3.2. What would be the standard deviation of the sample means?
answer: C
(A) 3.2 (B) 0.2 (C) 0.4 (D) 0.3 (E) 1.6
5. A hypothesis test is conducted and the P -value of the test statistic is 0.02. Four of the following statements
are valid. Which statement is not valid.
(A) It is not very likely that the extremeness of the test statistic is due to chance.
(B) Assuming the null hypothesis is true, there is a 2% chance of getting a more
extreme test statistic.
answer: C
(C) There is a 2% chance that the null hypothesis is false.
(D) At the 0.05 significance level, you would reject the null hypothesis.
(E) At the 0.01 significance level, you would fail to reject the null hypothesis.
6. Which of the following is NOT required of a binomial distribution
8. The t distribution should be used to build confidence interval estimates of a population mean when the popu-
lation standard deviation is
(A) small.
(B) 30 or more. answer: D
(C) too large to fit the normal distribution.
(D) unknown.
9. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the sampling distribution of sample means (the means of all
possible samples of a given size)?
10. Which of the following is a possible alternative hypothesis H1 for a two-tailed test.
(A) µ < 30 (B) µ 6= 30 (C) µ = 30 (D) µ > 30 answer: B
11. Suppose that at the 95% confidence level we calculate a confidence interval described by 43.8 < µ < 46.2.
Which of the following statements can not be made about this result.
(A) It is unlikely that the extremeness of the test statistic is due to chance. answer: D
(B) Assuming the null hypothesis is true, there is a 3% chance of getting a more extreme test statistic.
(C) At the 0.05 significance level, you would reject the null hypothesis.
(D) All of the above are viable conclusions.
14. The most frequently occurring value in a data set is called the
16. A box of 8 marbles has 4 red, 2 green, and 2 blue marbles. If you select one marble, what is the probability
that it is a red or blue marble.
17. A box of 8 marbles has 4 red, 2 green, and 2 blue marbles. If you select two marbles, without replacement,
what is the probability that you select a red marble followed by a green marble.
18. Suppose a normally distributed random variable x has a mean of 100 and P (x < 90) = 0.40.
What is the probability that x is between 90 and 110? Ie. What is P (90 < x < 110)?
19. Suppose you are calculating the minimum sample size required for a confidence interval about a population
mean and you know σ. Which of the following does not influence the minimum sample size?
2. In a survey of 200 randomly selected Burlington residents, only 8% of them used public transportation. Which
of the following describes the population for this survey?
3. US Air has a flight to New York for $160 and United Airlines has a flight to New York for $200. Three of the
following statements are true. Which statement is FALSE?
4. In a high-school with 200 males and 300 females, 50 students are needed for a study. The researchers decide
to randomly select 20 males and 30 females.
(A) Nominal
(B) Ordinal
(C) Interval answer:
(D) Ratio
6. In an effort to determine the amount of debt for Champlain College students, I surveyed 100 students from
each class (Freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior). What method of sampling did I use?
(A) Stratified
(B) Systematic answer:
(C) Cluster
(D) Convenience
10. For the data {10, 15, 20, 25, 30}, which of the following measures not change if the 30 was replaced by a 40?
12. In a normally distributed variable, those values more than 2 standard deviations away from the mean are
considered
(A) discrete.
(B) normal. answer:
(C) impossible.
(D) unusual.
14. The most frequently occurring value in a data set is called the answer:
(A) mean.
(B) median.
(C) mode.
(D) range.
(A) skewed
(B) flat
(C) symmetric and bell-shaped
(D) uniform
17. A box of 8 marbles has 4 red, 2 green, and 2 blue marbles. If you select one marble, what is the probability
that it is a red or blue marble.
19. A fair coin is tossed 10 times. What is the probability that of getting exactly 5 heads?
20. A fair coin is tossed 10 times. What is the probability that of getting less than 3 heads?
(a) 0.172 (b) 0.055 (c) 0.117 (d) 0.044 answer:
21. A binomial distribution consists of 150 trials. If the probability of success on each trial is 0.4, what is the
standard deviation of the distribution.
24. If you got a 79 on a test in a class with a mean score of 85 and a standard deviation of 4.8, the z-score of your
test score would be
25. If the heights of women are normally distributed with a mean of 64 inches and a standard deviation of 1 inch,
the probability of randomly selecting a woman taller than 62.5 inches is
27. Suppose you were to take samples of size 64 from a population with a mean of 12 and a standard deviation of
3.2. What would be the standard deviation of the sample means?
29. If the heights of women are normally distributed with a mean of 64 inches, which of the following is the highest?
The probability of randomly choosing
(A) one woman and finding her height is between 63 and 65 inches. answer:
(B) 15 women and finding that their mean height is between 63 and 65 inches.
(C) 100 women and finding that their mean height is between 63 and 65 inches.
(D) all of the above have the same probability.
30. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the sampling distribution of sample means (the means of all
possible samples of a given size)?
31. Suppose a normally distributed random variable x has a mean of 100 and P (x < 90) = 0.20.
What is the probability that x is between 90 and 110? Ie. What is P (90 < x < 110)?
(a) 0.60 (b) 0.20 (c) 0.40 (d) 0.30 answer:
32. Suppose that at the 95% confidence level we calculate a confidence interval described by 43.8 < µ < 46.2.
Which of the following statements can not be made about this result. answer:
33. Inferential statistics is so named because it allows us to examine a sample and make inferences about
34. Which of the following factors would NOT influence the size of the margin of error (E), in a confidence interval
estimate of a population mean?
35. You want to estimate the proportion of American voters who are optimistic about the state of the economy.
How large a sample would be needed to ensure a 95% probability that the actual population proportion will
be no more than 3 percentage points from the sample population?
39. Which of the following is a possible alternative hypothesis H1 for a two-tailed test.
(A) It is unlikely that the extremeness of the test statistic is due to chance. answer:
(B) Assuming the null hypothesis is true, there is a 3% chance of getting a more extreme test statistic.
(C) At the 0.05 significance level, you would reject the null hypothesis.
(D) All of the above are viable conclusions.
(A) It is quite possible that the extremeness of the test statistic is due to chance. answer:
(B) Assuming the null hypothesis is true, there is an 18% chance of getting a more extreme test statistic.
(C) At the 0.05 significance level, you would fail to reject the null hypothesis.
(D) All of the above are viable conclusions.
44. You test a claim that more than 10% of adults have tatoos. Your test statistic turns out to be zp̂ = 2.31.
What is the P -value of this test statistic?
(A) 0.9896
(B) 0.0104 answer:
(C) 0.0208
(D) 0.0951
45. Which of the following alternate hypotheses is indicative of a two tailed test.
47. For hypothesis tests about a mean, you should use a sample size greater than 30 when
48. I found a significant correlation between the time it takes students to complete an exam and the score on the
exam. The regression equation is given by
ŷ = 2.5 x − 10.2
where y is the score on the exam and x is the completion time (in minutes). Is this a positive or negative
correlation?
49. Many studies have shown that students score higher on math tests when there is classical music playing in the
background. Identify the response variable.
50. If we fail to find a significant linear relationship between two variables, then the best prediction for any value
of x would be found by using what?