Question 1

A percentile is a measure of ____________________ standing.

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The answer of A percentile is a measure of ____________________...

Question 2

The range, variance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation are to be used only on ____________________ data.

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The answer of The range, variance, standard deviation, and coefficient...

Question 3

The ____________________ measures the spread between the middle 50% of the observations.

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The answer of The ____________________ measures the spread between the...

Question 4

A basketball player has the following points for seven games: 20, 25, 32, 18, 19, 22, and 30. Compute the following measures of central location: 
 a. mean 
 b. median 
 c. mode

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The answer of A basketball player has the following points...

Question 5

____________________ are extremely large or extremely small observations.

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The answer of ____________________ are extremely large or extremely small...

Question 6

Pets Survey A sample of 40 families were asked how many pets they owned. Their responses are summarized in the following table.  {Pets Survey Narrative} Determine the mean, the median, and the mode of the number of pets owned per family.

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The answer of Pets Survey A sample of 40 families...

Question 7

Strip Mall Rent Monthly rent data in dollars for a sample of 10 stores in a small town in South Dakota are as follows: 220, 216, 220, 205, 210, 240, 195, 235, 204, and 250. {Strip Mall Rent Narrative} What is the mode?

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The answer of Strip Mall Rent Monthly rent data in...

Question 8

If the first and second quartiles are farther apart than the second and third quartiles, the shape of the histogram based on the quartiles is ____________________.

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The answer of If the first and second quartiles are...

Question 9

Any points that lie outside the whiskers on a box plot are called ____________________.

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Question 10

The ____________________ of a linear relationship is hard to interpret from the covariance, but it is easy to interpret from the correlation.

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The answer of The ____________________ of a linear relationship is...

Question 11

Q ₂ is another name for the ____________________.

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Question 12

Strip Mall Rent Monthly rent data in dollars for a sample of 10 stores in a small town in South Dakota are as follows: 220, 216, 220, 205, 210, 240, 195, 235, 204, and 250. {Strip Mall Rent Narrative} Compute the sample median.

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The answer of Strip Mall Rent Monthly rent data in...

Question 13

If the first and second quartiles are closer to each other than are the second and third quartiles, the shape of the histogram based on the quartiles is ____________________.

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The answer of If the first and second quartiles are...

Question 14

How do the mean, median and mode compare to each other when the distribution is: 
 a. symmetric? 
 b. negatively skewed? 
 c. positively skewed?

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The answer of How do the mean, median and mode...

Question 15

The magnitude of the correlation measures the ____________________ of a linear relationship.

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The answer of The magnitude of the correlation measures the...

Question 16

Strip Mall Rent Monthly rent data in dollars for a sample of 10 stores in a small town in South Dakota are as follows: 220, 216, 220, 205, 210, 240, 195, 235, 204, and 250. {Strip Mall Rent Narrative} Compute the sample monthly average rent.

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The answer of Strip Mall Rent Monthly rent data in...

Question 17

The middle line inside the box in a box plot represents the ____________________.

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The answer of The middle line inside the box in...

Question 18

Pets Survey A sample of 40 families were asked how many pets they owned. Their responses are summarized in the following table.  {Pets Survey Narrative} Explain what the mean, median, and mode tell you about this particular data set.

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The answer of Pets Survey A sample of 40 families...

Question 19

The ____________________ of the correlation indicates the direction of a linear relationship.

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The answer of The ____________________ of the correlation indicates the...

Question 20

The 10th ____________________ is the value for which 10% of the observations are less than that value.

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The answer of The 10th ____________________ is the value for...

Quiz 3: Numerical Descriptive Techniques

A percentile is a measure of ____________________ standing.

The range, variance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation are to be used only on ____________________ data.

The ____________________ measures the spread between the middle 50% of the observations.

A basketball player has the following points for seven games: 20, 25, 32, 18, 19, 22, and 30. Compute the following measures of central location: a. mean b. median c. mode

____________________ are extremely large or extremely small observations.

Pets Survey A sample of 40 families were asked how many pets they owned. Their responses are summarized in the following table. {Pets Survey Narrative} Determine the mean, the median, and the mode of the number of pets owned per family.

Strip Mall Rent Monthly rent data in dollars for a sample of 10 stores in a small town in South Dakota are as follows: 220, 216, 220, 205, 210, 240, 195, 235, 204, and 250. {Strip Mall Rent Narrative} What is the mode?

If the first and second quartiles are farther apart than the second and third quartiles, the shape of the histogram based on the quartiles is ____________________.

Any points that lie outside the whiskers on a box plot are called ____________________.

The ____________________ of a linear relationship is hard to interpret from the covariance, but it is easy to interpret from the correlation.

Q 2 is another name for the ____________________.

Strip Mall Rent Monthly rent data in dollars for a sample of 10 stores in a small town in South Dakota are as follows: 220, 216, 220, 205, 210, 240, 195, 235, 204, and 250. {Strip Mall Rent Narrative} Compute the sample median.

If the first and second quartiles are closer to each other than are the second and third quartiles, the shape of the histogram based on the quartiles is ____________________.

How do the mean, median and mode compare to each other when the distribution is: a. symmetric? b. negatively skewed? c. positively skewed?

The magnitude of the correlation measures the ____________________ of a linear relationship.

Strip Mall Rent Monthly rent data in dollars for a sample of 10 stores in a small town in South Dakota are as follows: 220, 216, 220, 205, 210, 240, 195, 235, 204, and 250. {Strip Mall Rent Narrative} Compute the sample monthly average rent.

The middle line inside the box in a box plot represents the ____________________.

Pets Survey A sample of 40 families were asked how many pets they owned. Their responses are summarized in the following table. {Pets Survey Narrative} Explain what the mean, median, and mode tell you about this particular data set.

The ____________________ of the correlation indicates the direction of a linear relationship.

The 10th ____________________ is the value for which 10% of the observations are less than that value.

Q ₂ is another name for the ____________________.