Question 1

When reporting descriptive statistics for a variable, why should the report include measures of location and dispersion?

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Question 2

The mean monthly income of a group of college students is $500; the standard deviation is $20. According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least what percent of the incomes will lie between $400 and $600? _______________________

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Question 3

Cook County public safety monitors the number of "driving under the influence" arrests and is interested in the distribution of arrests in the month of December over the last 5 years. The data are  What is the sample variance? ___________.

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Question 4

Cook County public safety monitors the number of "driving on the influence" arrests and is interested in the distribution of arrests in the month of December over the last 5 years. The data are  What is the standard deviation? ___________.

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Question 5

What are the similarities and differences between the mean, the median, and the mode?

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Question 6

Coastal Carolina University recently surveyed a sample of students to determine how far they lived from campus. The results are shown below. Compute the mean distance.

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Question 7

The Sea Mist Hotel collects customer satisfaction data daily. Yesterday the hotel was 99% occupied and the manager wanted to quickly assess customer satisfaction. She randomly selected ten scores. 100 points is the maximum score. The mean score is 82.1. The ten scores were  What is the standard deviation? ___________.

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Question 8

Coastal Carolina University recently surveyed a sample of students to determine how far they lived from campus. The results are shown below. Compute the standard deviation.

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Question 9

What are the similarities and differences between the applications of Chebyshev's Theorem and the Empirical Rule?

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Question 10

What are the similarities and differences between the range and the standard deviation?

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Question 11

The mean monthly income of a group of college students is $500; the standard deviation is $50. And the mean monthly income is normally distributed. Approximately, what percent of the incomes will lie between $400 and $600? _______________________

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Question 12

The Sea Mist Hotel collects customer satisfaction data daily. Yesterday the hotel was 99% occupied and the manager wanted to quickly assess customer satisfaction. She randomly selected ten scores. 100 points is the maximum score. The mean score is 82.1. The ten scores were  What is the variance? ___________.

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Quiz 3: Describing Data: Numerical Measures

When reporting descriptive statistics for a variable, why should the report include measures of location and dispersion?

The mean monthly income of a group of college students is $500; the standard deviation is $20. According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least what percent of the incomes will lie between $400 and $600? _______________________

Cook County public safety monitors the number of "driving under the influence" arrests and is interested in the distribution of arrests in the month of December over the last 5 years. The data are What is the sample variance? ___________.

Cook County public safety monitors the number of "driving on the influence" arrests and is interested in the distribution of arrests in the month of December over the last 5 years. The data are What is the standard deviation? ___________.

What are the similarities and differences between the mean, the median, and the mode?

Coastal Carolina University recently surveyed a sample of students to determine how far they lived from campus. The results are shown below. Compute the mean distance.

Coastal Carolina University recently surveyed a sample of students to determine how far they lived from campus. The results are shown below. Compute the standard deviation.

What are the similarities and differences between the applications of Chebyshev's Theorem and the Empirical Rule?

What are the similarities and differences between the range and the standard deviation?

The mean monthly income of a group of college students is $500; the standard deviation is $50. And the mean monthly income is normally distributed. Approximately, what percent of the incomes will lie between $400 and $600? _______________________