Chapter 01 - Practice Sheet - Questions
Chapter 01 - Practice Sheet - Questions
1. In a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their gender as male or female. Gender is an example of the
a. ordinal scale
b. nominal scale
c. ratio scale
d. interval scale
2. The scale of measurement that is used to rank order the observation for a variable is called the
a. ratio scale
b. ordinal scale
c. nominal scale
d. interval scale
3. Some hotels ask their guests to rate the hotel's services as excellent, very good, good, and poor. This is an
example of the
a. ordinal scale
b. ratio scale
c. nominal scale
d. interval scale
4. The ratio scale of measurement has the properties of
a. only the ordinal scale
b. only the nominal scale
c. the rank scale
d. the interval scale
5. Temperature is an example of a variable that uses
a. the ratio scale
b. the interval scale
c. the ordinal scale
d. either the ratio or the ordinal scale
10. In a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their gender as male or female. Gender is an example of a
a. categorical variable
b. quantitative variable
c. categorical or quantitative variable, depending on how the respondents answered the
question
d. None of these alternatives is correct.
11. For ease of data entry into a university database, 1 denotes that the student is an undergraduate and 2
indicates that the student is a graduate student. In this case data are
a. categorical
b. quantitative
c. either categorical or quantitative
d. neither categorical nor quantitative
12. Data collected at the same, or approximately the same, point in time are
a. time series data
b. approximate time series data
c. crossectional data
d. approximate data
13. Data collected over several time periods are
a. time series data
b. time controlled data
c. crossectional data
d. time crossectional data
14. The summaries of data, which may be tabular, graphical, or numerical, are referred to as
a. inferential statistics
b. descriptive statistics
c. statistical inference
d. report generation
15. The Department of Transportation of a city has noted that on the average there are 17 accidents per day. The
average number of accidents is an example of
a. descriptive statistics
b. statistical inference
c. a sample
d. a population
16. The sample size
a. can be larger than the population size
b. is always smaller than the population size
c. can be larger or smaller than the population size
d. is always equal to the size of the population
Exhibit 1-1
Part of the data bank of a corporation is shown below.
23. The following table shows the starting salaries of a sample of recent business graduates.
a. What percentage of graduates in the sample had starting salaries of at least $30,000?
b. Of the graduates in the sample, what percentage had starting salaries of less than $25,000?
c. Based on this sample, what percentage of all business graduates do you estimate to have
starting salaries of at least $20,000?
24. The highway patrol is interested in determining the average speed of automobiles traveling on I-75 between
Chattanooga and Atlanta. To accomplish this task, the speed of every tenth car passing a particular point
on I-75 is recorded.
25. The following information regarding the ten richest Americans was reported in a recent issue of Forbes.