Deck 2: Tabular and Graphical Methods

Question 1

A stem-and-leaf diagram is useful in that it gives an overall picture of where quantitative data are centered and how the data are dispersed from the center.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In order to summarize qualitative data,a useful tool is a __________.

A) histogram
B) frequency distribution
C) stem-and-leaf diagram
D) All of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A bar chart may be displayed horizontally.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Scatterplot is a graphical tool that is focused on describing one variable.

Question 5

A polygon connects a series of neighboring points where each point represents the midpoint of a particular class and its associated frequency or relative frequency.

Question 6

A bar chart depicts the frequency or relative frequency of each category of qualitative data as a bar rising vertically from the horizontal axis.It is also acceptable for the bar to extend horizontally from the vertical axis.

Question 7

To approximate the width of a class in the creation of a bar chart,we may use this formula:

Question 8

An ogive is a graph that plots the cumulative frequency (or the cumulative relative frequency)of each class above the lower limit of the corresponding class.

Question 9

When constructing a pie chart,only a few,the most frequent,categories must be included in the pie.

Question 10

The percent frequency of a category equals the frequency of the category multiplied by 100%.

Question 11

A frequency distribution for qualitative data groups these data into classes called intervals and records the total number of observations in each class.

Question 12

A pie chart is a segmented circle that portrays the categories and relative sizes of some quantitative variable.

Question 13

For quantitative data,a relative frequency distribution identifies the proportion of observations that fall into each class.

Question 14

A scatterplot is a graphical tool that helps determine whether or not two quantitative variables are related.

Question 15

When constructing a scatterplot for two quantitative variables,we usually refer to one variable as x and another one as y.Typically,we graph x on the vertical axis and y on the horizontal axis.

Question 16

For quantitative data,a cumulative relative frequency distribution records the proportion (fraction)of values that fall below the upper limit of each class.

Question 17

The relative frequency of a category is calculated by dividing the category's frequency by the total number of observations.

Question 18

A histogram is a series of rectangles where the width and height of each rectangle represent the frequency (or relative frequency)and the width of the class,respectively.

Question 19

Frequency distributions may be used to describe which of the following types of data?

A) Nominal and ordinal data only
B) Nominal and interval data only
C) Nominal,ordinal,and interval data only
D) Nominal,ordinal,interval,and ratio data

Question 20

When summarizing quantitative data it is always better to have up to 30 classes in a frequency distribution.

Question 21

A city in California spent $6 million repairing damage to its public buildings in 2010.The following table shows the categories where the money was directed. How much more did the city spend to fix damage caused by termites compared to the damage caused by water?

A) $360,000
B) $720,000
C) $960,000
D) $1,320,000

Question 22

A city in California spent $6 million repairing damage to its public buildings in 2010.The following table shows the categories where the money was directed. How much did the city spend to fix damage caused by mold?

A) $360,000
B) $720,000
C) $1,440,000
D) $1,800,000

Question 23

The accompanying chart shows the number of books written by each author in a collection of cookbooks.What type of data is being represented?

A) Quantitative,ordinal
B) Quantitative,ratio
C) Qualitative,nominal
D) Qualitative,ordinal

Question 24

An auto parts chain asked customers to complete a survey rating the chain's customer service as average,above average,or below average.The following table shows the results from the survey. A rating of Average or Above Average accounted for what number of responses to the survey?

A) 3
B) 7
C) 8
D) 10

Question 25

Which of the following best describes a frequency distribution for qualitative data?

A) It groups data into histograms and records the proportion (fraction)of observations in each histogram.
B) It groups data into categories and records the number of observations in each category.
C) It groups data into intervals called classes and records the proportion (fraction)of observations in each class.
D) It groups data into intervals called classes and records the number of observations in each class.

Question 26

An auto parts chain asked customers to complete a survey rating the chain's customer service as average,above average,or below average.The following shows the results from the survey: The proportion of customers who felt the customer service was Average is the closest to _______.

A) 0.20
B) 0.33
C) 0.46
D) 0.53

Question 27

The following is a list of five of the world's busiest airports by passenger traffic for 2010. The percentage of passenger traffic in the five busiest airports that occurred in Asia is the closest to ___________.

A) 18%
B) 21%
C) 25%
D) 38%

Question 28

Students in Professor Smith's business statistics course have evaluated the overall effectiveness of the professor's instruction on a five-point scale,where a score of 1 indicates very poor performance and a score of 5 indicates outstanding performance.The raw scores are displayed in the accompanying table: What is the relative frequency of the students who gave Professor Smith an evaluation of 3?

A) 0.3
B) 0.5
C) 9
D) 15

Question 29

Horizontal bar charts are constructed by placing _________________________________________________________.

A) each category on the vertical axis and the appropriate range of values on the horizontal axis
B) each category on the horizontal axis and the appropriate range of values on the vertical axis
C) each interval of values on the vertical axis and the appropriate range of values on the horizontal axis
D) None of the above

Question 30

What graphical tool is best used to display the relative frequency of grouped quantitative data?

A) Ogive
B) Pie chart
C) Bar chart
D) Histogram

Question 31

Students in Professor Smith's business statistics course have evaluated the overall effectiveness of the professor's instruction on a five-point scale,where a score of 1 indicates very poor performance and a score of 5 indicates outstanding performance.The raw scores are displayed in the accompanying table. What percentage of students gave professor Smith an evaluation higher than 3?

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 50%
D) 80%

Question 32

The accompanying chart shows the numbers of books written by each author in a collection of cookbooks.What type of chart is this?

A) Bar chart for qualitative data
B) Bar chart for quantitative data
C) Frequency histogram for qualitative data
D) Frequency histogram for quantitative data

Question 33

The following is a list of five of the world's busiest airports by passenger traffic for 2010. How many more millions of passengers flew out of Atlanta than flew out of Chicago?

A) 13
B) 21
C) 23
D) 25

Question 34

For which of the following data sets will a pie chart be most useful?

A) Heights of high school freshmen
B) Ambient temperatures in the U.S.Capitol Building
C) Percentage of net sales by product for Lenovo in 2011
D) Growth rates of firms in a particular industry

Question 35

For both qualitative and quantitative data,what is the difference between the relative frequency and the percent frequency?

A) The relative frequency equals the percent frequency multiplied by 100.
B) The percent frequency equals the relative frequency multiplied by 100.
C) As opposed to the relative frequency,the percent frequency is divided by the number of observations in the data set.
D) As opposed to the percent frequency,the relative frequency is divided by the number of observations in the data set.

Question 36

When constructing a frequency distribution for quantitative data,it is important to remember that _____________.

A) classes are mutually exclusive
B) classes are collectively exhaustive
C) the total number of classes usually ranges from 5 to 20
D) All of the above

Question 37

Students in Professor Smith's business statistics course have evaluated the overall effectiveness of the professor's instruction on a five-point scale,where a score of 1 indicates very poor performance and a score of 5 indicates outstanding performance.The raw scores are displayed in the accompanying table: What is the most common score given in the evaluations?

A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5

Question 38

The following data represent scores on a pop quiz in a statistics section. Suppose the data on quiz scores will be grouped into five classes.The width of the classes for a frequency distribution or histogram is the closestto ______.

A) 10
B) 12
C) 14
D) 16

Question 39

Students in Professor Smith's business statistics course have evaluated the overall effectiveness of the professor's instruction on a five-point scale,where a score of 1 indicates very poor performance and a score of 5 indicates outstanding performance.The raw scores are displayed in the accompanying table. What percentage of students gave Professor Smith an evaluation of 2 or less?

A) 6.7%
B) 13.3%
C) 20%
D) 80%

Question 40

In the following pie chart representing a collection of cookbooks,which author has more titles?

A) Jeff Smith
B) Julia Child
C) Rachael Ray
D) Paula Deen

Question 41

The following histogram represents the number of pages in each book within a collection.What is the frequency of books containing at least 200 but fewer than 250 pages?

A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 7

Question 42

The following data represent scores on a pop quiz in a statistics section. Suppose the data are grouped into five classes,and one of them will be "30 up to 44" -that is,{x;30 ≤ x < 44}.The relative frequency of this class is _____.

A) 0.20
B) 0.25
C) 4
D) 5

Question 43

The following data represent the recent sales price (in $1,000s)of 24 homes in a Midwestern city. Suppose the data are grouped into five classes,and one of them will be "165 up to 190." -that is,{x;165 ≤ x < 190}.The frequency of this class is _____.

A) 6/24
B) 7/24
C) 6
D) 7

Question 44

The following data represent scores on a pop quiz in a statistics section: Suppose the data are grouped into five classes,and one of them will be "30 up to 44." that is,{x;30 ≤ x < 44}.The frequency of this class is _____.

A) 0.20
B) 0.25
C) 4
D) 5

Question 45

The following histogram represents the number of pages in each book within a collection.What is the frequency of books containing at least 250 but fewer than 300 pages?

A) 5
B) 6
C) 7
D) 12

Question 46

Consider the following frequency distribution. The total number of observations in the frequency distribution is ______.

A) 5
B) 6
C) 20
D) 24

Question 47

Consider the following frequency distribution. How many observations are less than 21?

A) 6
B) 12
C) 18
D) 24

Question 48

The following data represent the recent sales price (in $1,000s)of 24 homes in a Midwestern city. Suppose the data on house prices will be grouped into five classes.The width of the classes for a frequency distribution or histogram is the closest to _______.

A) 15
B) 20
C) 25
D) 30

Question 49

Consider the following frequency distribution. What proportion of the observations are less than 21?

A) 0.30
B) 0.60
C) 0.90
D) 1.00

Question 50

Consider the following frequency distribution. What proportion of the observations are at least 15 but less than 18?

A) 0.20
B) 0.25
C) 0.30
D) 0.35

Question 51

Thirty students at Eastside High School took the SAT on the same Saturday.Their raw scores are given next. Consider a frequency distribution of the data that groups the data in classes of 1400 up to 1600,1600 up to 1800,1800 up to 2000,and so on.What is the approximate relative frequency of students who scored more than 1600 but less than 1800?

A) 0.17
B) 0.23
C) 0.40
D) 0.77

Question 52

Thirty students at Eastside High School took the SAT on the same Saturday.Their raw scores are given next. Consider a frequency distribution of the data that groups the data in classes of 1400 up to 1600,1600 up to 1800,1800 up to 2000,and so on.How many students scored at least 1800 but less than 2000?

A) 3
B) 7
C) 12
D) 18

Question 53

An analyst constructed the following frequency distribution on the monthly returns for 50 selected stocks: An analyst constructed the following frequency distribution on the monthly returns for 50 selected stocks. The proportion of stocks with returns of 0% up to 10% is ______.

A) 0.30
B) 0.50
C) 0.66
D) 0.80

Question 54

Thirty students at Eastside High School took the SAT on the same Saturday.Their raw scores are given next. Consider a frequency distribution of the data that groups the data in classes of 1400 up to 1600,1600 up to 1800,1800 up to 2000,and so on.What graphical tool would you use to display the cumulative relative frequency of the grouped data?

A) Ogive
B) Polygon
C) Pie chart
D) Bar chart

Question 55

The following data represent the recent sales price (in $1,000s)of 24 homes in a midwestern city. Suppose the data are grouped into five classes,and one of them will be "115 up to 140." -that is,{x;115 ≤ x < 140}.The relative frequency of this class is ______.

A) 6/24
B) 7/24
C) 6
D) 7

Question 56

An analyst constructed the following frequency distribution on the monthly returns for 50 selected stocks. The number of stocks with returns of less than 10% is ______.

A) 8
B) 25
C) 33
D) 48

Question 57

The following histogram represents the number of pages in each book within a collection.What is the frequency of books containing at least 250 but fewer than 400 pages?

A) 7
B) 10
C) 11
D) 12

Question 58

An analyst constructed the following frequency distribution on the monthly returns for 50 selected stocks. The number of stocks with returns of 0% up to 10% is ______.

A) 2
B) 8
C) 15
D) 25

Question 59

Consider the following frequency distribution. How many observations are at least 15 but less than 18?

A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 6

Question 60

Thirty students at Eastside High School took the SAT on the same Saturday.Their raw scores are given next. Consider a frequency distribution of the data that groups the data in classes of 1400 up to 1600,1600 up to 1800,1800 up to 2000,and so on.What percent of students scored less than 2200?

A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 80%
D) 90%

Question 61

The accompanying relative frequency distribution represents the last year car sales for the sales force at Kelly's Mega Used Car Center. If Kelly's employs 100 salespeople,how many of these salespeople have sold at least 45 but fewer than 65 cars in the last year?

A) 15
B) 31
C) 40
D) 46

Question 62

The accompanying table shows students' scores from the final exam in a history course. How many of the students scored at least 70 but less than 90?

A) 24
B) 31
C) 55
D) 88

Question 63

How does an ogive differ from a polygon?

A) An ogive is used for qualitative data,while a polygon is used for quantitative data.
B) An ogive is used for quantitative data,while a polygon is used for qualitative data.
C) An ogive is a graphical depiction of a frequency or relative distribution,while a polygon is a graphical depiction of a cumulative frequency or cumulative relative frequency distribution.
D) An ogive is a graphical depiction of a cumulative frequency or cumulative relative frequency distribution,while a polygon is a graphical depiction of a frequency or relative frequency distribution.

Question 64

Automobiles traveling on a road with a posted speed limit of 65 miles per hour are checked for speed by a state police radar system.The following table is a frequency distribution of speeds. How many of the cars traveled less than 75 miles per hour?

A) 275
B) 325
C) 650
D) 675

Question 65

The following table shows the number of payroll jobs the government added during the years it added jobs (since 1973).The jobs are in thousands. Approximately what percent of the time did the government add 200,000 or more jobs?

A) 19%
B) 50%
C) 77%
D) 81%

Question 66

In the accompanying stem-and-leaf diagram,the values in the stem-and-leaf portions represent 10s and 1s digits,respectively. What would be the frequency of the class 35 up to 45,that is {x;35 ≤ x< 45}?

A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3

Question 67

In the accompanying stem-and-leaf diagram,the values in the stem-and-leaf portions represent 10s and 1s digits,respectively. Find the frequency associated with data values that are more than 28.

A) 8
B) 9
C) 10
D) 11

Question 68

The organization of the Girl Sprouts has completed its annual cookie drive.The sales are reported in the accompanying ogive. Approximate the percentage of girls who sold more than 70 boxes of cookies.

A) 45%
B) 55%
C) 65%
D) 75%

Question 69

The organization of the Girl Sprouts has completed its annual cookie drive.The sales are reported in the accompanying ogive. Approximate the percentage of girls who sold less than 90 boxes of cookies.

A) 45%
B) 55%
C) 65%
D) 75%

Question 70

When displaying quantitative data,what is an ogive used to plot?

A) Frequency or relative frequency of each class against the midpoint of the corresponding class
B) Cumulative frequency or cumulative relative frequency of each class against the upper limit of the corresponding class
C) Frequency or relative frequency of each class against the midpoint of the corresponding class and cumulative frequency or cumulative relative frequency of each class against the upper limit of the corresponding class
D) None of the above

Question 71

A stem-and-leaf diagram is constructed by separating each value of a data set into two parts.What are these parts?

A) Stem consisting of the last digit and leaf consisting of the leftmost digits
B) Stem consisting of the leftmost digits and leaf consisting of the second digit
C) Stem consisting of the second digit and leaf consisting of the last digit
D) Stem consisting of the leftmost digits and leaf consisting of the last digit

Question 72

The following stem-and-leaf diagram shows the speeds in miles per hour (mph)of 14 cars approaching a toll booth on a bridge in Oakland,California. How many of the cars were traveling faster than 25 mph but slower than 40 mph?

A) 8
B) 9
C) 10
D) 12

Question 73

Automobiles traveling on a road with a posted speed limit of 65 miles per hour are checked for speed by a state police radar system.The following table is a frequency distribution of speeds. What proportion of the cars traveled at least 55 but less than 65 miles per hour?

A) 0.33
B) 0.48
C) 0.56
D) 0.80

Question 74

The accompanying relative frequency distribution represents the last year car sales for the sales force at Kelly's Mega Used Car Center. If Kelly's employs 100 salespeople,how many of these salespeople have sold at least 65 cars in the last year?

A) 22
B) 25
C) 31
D) 47

Question 75

In the accompanying stem-and-leaf diagram,the values in the stem and leaf portions represent 10s and 1s digits,respectively. Which of the following numbers appears in the stem-and-leaf diagram?

A) 3800
B) 380
C) 38
D) 3.8

Question 76

The accompanying relative frequency distribution represents the last year car sales for the sales force at Kelly's Mega Used Car Center. If Kelly's employs 100 salespeople,how many of these salespeople have sold at least 35 but fewer than 45 cars in the last year?

A) 5
B) 7
C) 10
D) 15

Question 77

Automobiles traveling on a road with a posted speed limit of 65 miles per hour are checked for speed by a state police radar system.The following table is a frequency distribution of speeds. When using a polygon to graph quantitative data,what does each point represent?

A) The lower limit of a particular class and its width
B) The midpoint of a particular class and its associated frequency or relative frequency
C) The midpoint of a particular class and its associated cumulative frequency or cumulative relative frequency
D) The upper limit of a particular class and its associated cumulative frequency or cumulative relative frequency

Question 78

An analyst constructed the following frequency distribution on the monthly returns for 50 selected stocks. The proportion of stocks with returns of less than 10% is _____.

A) 0.30
B) 0.50
C) 0.66
D) 0.80

Question 79

In the accompanying stem-and-leaf diagram,the values in the stem-and-leaf portions represent 10s and 1s digits,respectively. The stem-and-leaf diagram shows that the distribution is ___________.

A) symmetric
B) positively skewed
C) negatively skewed
D) None of the above

Question 80

In the accompanying stem-and-leaf diagram,the values in the stem-and-leaf portions represent 10s and 1s digits,respectively. How many values are at least 25 but less than 35?

A) 10
B) 11
C) 12
D) 13