Unit Test Answers

Voluntary sampling is one type of sampling method that is not probability based. This means that

A researcher wants to survey people from different age groups to analyze voting patterns. Which type of survey will best accomplish this goal?

The president of the math club is conducting a survey to see where the twelfth-grade class wants to go on their field trip. Instead of asking the whole class, she surveys only the twelfth-grade members of the math club. She records their choices and plans to present the results to the school principal. What type of sampling did she use?

The times of all 15 year olds who run a certain race are approximately normally distributed with a given mean = 18 sec and standard deviation = 1.2 sec. What percentage of the runners have times less than 14.4 sec?

A simple random sample of size n is drawn from a normally distributed population, and the mean of the sample is , while the standard deviation is s. What is the 90% confidence interval for the population mean? Use the table below to help you answer the question.Confidence Level90%95%99%z*-score1.6451.962.58

A scientist calculated the mean and standard deviation of a data set to be and . She then found that she was missing one data value from the set. She knows that the missing data value was exactly 3 standard deviations away from the mean. What was the missing data value?

A local newspaper compiles data on the number of days, X, people in a neighborhood receive the newspaper. The probability distribution for the data is shown in the table below. What is the probability that a randomly chosen person receives the newspaper at least one day per week?

A utility company hires pollsters to knock on random doors in different parts of town to survey residents about the cost of their electric bill. Would this study be biased? Why or why not?

A supervisor finds the mean number of miles that the employees in a department live from work. He finds and . Which statement must be true?

The histogram below shows the estimated monthly salaries of company employees with different years of experience. How might the graph be misleading?

A gymnastics coach records the scores of a gymnast and develops the probability distribution below. What is the probability the gymnast scores a 9 or 9.5?Probability DistributionGymnastics Score: XProbability: P(X)50.025.50.0260.066.50.170.167.50.1480.188.50.189?9.50.02

Car insurance companies want to keep track of the average cost per claim. The current data in use for Auto Insurance R Us is an average of $2,200 for each claim with a standard deviation of $500. With this average, the company can stay competitive with rates but not lose money. However, the statistician for the company believes that the cost of the average claim has increased. He pulled 40 recent claims and found the average to be $2,350. Which most restrictive level of significance would suggest that the company should raise rates? Upper-Tail Valuesa5%2.5%1%Critical z-values1.651.962.58

The graph below shows the amount of time Misha spent outside over a 30-day period. How might the graph be considered misleading?

The histogram below shows the average number of days per year in 117 Oklahoma cities where the high temperature was greater than 90 degrees Fahrenheit.Which is an accurate comparison?

Opal is collecting data on water levels in different parts of town. She notices that her sample data has a low-value outlier. Which statement must be true?