Quiz about 03 Collecting Data Unit Review

Question 1

Ms. Marianne wanted to know her students' opinions on the new schedule at school. So she randomly selected 2 students from each of her classes to survey.
Assuming that all of her classes are roughly the same size, this is a form of:

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Stratified Sampling

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Convenience Sampling

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Simple Random Sampling

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Cluster Sampling

Question 2

An independent research company wants to go door to door to survey people in the city of Fontana. The company decides to number all blocks within the city limit, randomly choose 50 blocks and survey all households on each selected block.
This is an example of:

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Cluster Sampling

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Simple Random Sampling

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Stratified Sampling

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Systematic Sampling

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of a sampling method that is randomized?

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All of these

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Simple Random Sampling

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Stratified Sampling

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Cluster Sampling

Question 4

Disneyland often surveys its guests as they exit a restaurant during their visit to assess the quality of their dining experience.
The surveyor stands at the restaurant exit, counts the number of people leaving, and surveys every 25th guest. This is a form of:

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Systematic Sampling

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Simple Random Sampling

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Stratified Sampling

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Convenience Sampling

Question 5

A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys, so she randomly selects five students from the class to survey, paying no attention to their gender.
This is a form of:

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Simple Random Sampling

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Cluster Sampling

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Systematic Sampling

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Stratified Sampling

Question 6

Ms. Marianne wanted to know students' opinion on the new schedule at school. She places all of her students' names in a container and randomly picks out 20 names. She surveys those students whose names have been chosen.
This is an example of:

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Simple Random Sampling

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Convenience Sampling

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Systematic Sampling

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Convenience Sampling

Question 7

A ___ is the data that a statistical study is interested in collecting

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Population

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Sample

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Stratified Sampling Method

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Voluntary-Response

Question 8

A poll about favorite sports is taken from 100 seniors in a high school where the senior class has 575 students. 23% of respondents said that baseball was their favorite sport.
The "100" is the ______

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Sample Size

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Population Size

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Statistic

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Parameter

Question 9

A poll about favorite sports is taken from 100 seniors in a high school where the senior class has 575 students. 23% of respondents said that baseball was their favorite sport.
The "575" is the ______

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Population Size

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Sample Size

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Statistic

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Parameter

Question 10

A poll about favorite sports is taken from 100 seniors in a high school where the senior class has 575 students. 23% of respondents said that baseball was their favorite sport.
The "23%" is the ______

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Statistic

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Sample Size

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Population Size

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Parameter

Question 11

A ___ is the data that a statistical study actually collects

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Sample

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Survey

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Population

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Parameter

Question 12

Political webpages often allow their readers to rate whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with the President's decision on any given issue. This is a form of:

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Convenience Sampling

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Systematic Sampling

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Stratified Sampling

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Cluster Sampling

Question 13

Which of the following is false?

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Stratified sampling is not randomized

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Asking personal questions face to face can lead to response bias.

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Asking people as they walk into a stadium for the name of their favorite football team can result in selection bias.

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Convenience sampling is very susceptible to bias

Question 14

A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys. She randomly selects 4 girls and 1 boy to survey.
This is a form of:

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Stratified Sampling

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Simple Random Sampling

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Convenience Sampling

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Systematic Sampling

Question 15

A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys. She selects a random student to start then picks the student in every 5th seat.
This is a form of:

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Systematic Sampling

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Simple Random Sampling

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Convenience Sampling

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Stratified Sampling

Question 16

You are determining the favorite fast food restaurant of students at your school. Which of the following is the most likely to provide unbiased data?

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Survey everyone in a few randomly chosen Discovery classes.

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Survey everyone leaving the McDonald's close to school.

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Survey a group of friends sitting together in the cafeteria

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Survey a group of students at the Gym.

Question 17

Farmer Joe's apple tree farm is set up in 100 rows.  He counts the number of apples produced on every 10th row to estimate the number apples produced on the whole farm.  This is _____________ sampling.

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Systematic

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Random

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Stratified

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Convenience

Question 18

If every individual in a population has the same chance of being included in a sample, the sample is a/an _________ sample.

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random

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biased

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systematic

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stratified

Question 19

The school librarian wants to determine how many students use the library on a regular basis.  What type of sampling method would she be using if she chose to use a random number generator to randomly select 50 students from the school's attendance roster?

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Simple Random

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Convenience

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Stratified

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Systematic

Question 20

Which of the following is an example of qualitative data?

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social security number

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number of keys on a key-chain

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height

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age

Question 21

A Field of Study contains 453 boys and 622 girls. A researcher wants to survey this field of study and she wants to stratify by gender.
If the sample size is to be 100, how many boys should she survey?

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42

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45

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55

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73

Question 22

The Observation, Experiment, Survey and Simulation are the four main...

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Methods of Data Collection

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Sampling Methods

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Types of Data

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Levels of Measurement

Question 23

Nominal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratio are the four main...

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Levels of Measurement

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Methods of Data Collection

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Sampling Techniques

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Types of Data

Question 24

Convenience, Systematic, Simple Random, Cluster and Stratified are the five main...

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Sampling Techniques

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Methods of Data Collection

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Types of Data

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Levels of Measurement

Question 25

Qualitative and Quantitative are the two main...

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Types of Data

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Methods of Data Collection

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Sampling Techniques

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Levels of Measurement

Question 26

__________________________ can be further classified as either Censuses or Samplings.

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Observations and Surveys

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Experiments and Simulations

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Observations and Simulations

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Experiments and Surveys

Question 27

A/an __________________ is a fake treatment given to the Control Group so that its members can't figure out that they're in the Control Group.

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placebo

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survey

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dummy variable

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false positive

Question 28

A/an ____________________ is a type of observation or survey where the sample size equals the population size.

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census

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sampling

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experiment

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simulation

Question 29

This is the only Level of Measurement that is always qualitative.

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 30

A/an ____________________ is a type of observation or survey where the sample size is less than the population size.

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sampling

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census

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experiment

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simulation

Question 31

This is the only Level of Measurement that can be either qualitative or quantitative.

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Ordinal

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Nominal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 32

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
The teacher of a class of third graders records the height of each student.

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ratio

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

Question 33

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
The teacher of a class of third graders records the eye color of each student.

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

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ratio

Question 34

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
The teacher of a class of third graders records the letter grade for mathematics for each student.

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ordinal

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nominal

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interval

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ratio

Question 35

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
The teacher of a class of third graders records the percentage that each student got correct on the last science test.

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ratio

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

Question 36

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
A meteorologist compiles a list of temperatures in degrees Celsius for the month of May.

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interval

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nominal

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ordinal

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ratio

Question 37

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
A meteorologist compiles a list of temperatures in degrees Kelvin for the month of May.

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ratio

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

Question 38

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
A film critic ranks the top 50 movies of all time.

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ordinal

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nominal

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interval

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ratio

Question 39

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
A car magazine lists the most expensive cars for 2017, including the price of each car.

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ratio

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

Question 40

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
The roster of a basketball team lists the jersey numbers for each of the players.

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

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ratio

Question 41

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario:
A local animal shelter keeps track of the breeds of dogs that come in.

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

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ratio

Question 42

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario.
A local animal shelter keeps track of the weights of dogs that come in.

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ratio

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

Question 43

This is the only Level of Measurement that allows multiplication and division of data points.

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ratio

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

Question 44

A key difference between Interval and Ratio data is that Ratio data does not allow _________ numbers.

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negative

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decimal

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odd

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prime

Question 45

This Level of Measurement has an "inherent zero," a zero that means "none."

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ratio

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nominal

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ordinal

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interval

Question 46

These are the Levels of Measurement that allow the subtraction of data points

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Interval and ratio

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Nominal and ordinal

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Ordinal and interval

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Nominal and interval

Question 47

A study of 36,000 families in France found that 35% planned to vacation at the beach in August.
Which of the following is the Field (or Focus) of Study?

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Families in France

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The vacation plans of all families in France

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The vacation plans of 36,000 Families in France

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35% planned to vacation at the beach in August.

Question 48

A study of 36,000 families in France found that 35% planned to vacation at the beach in August.
Which of the following is the Population?

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The vacation plans of all families in France

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Families in France

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The vacation plans of 36,000 Families in France

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35% planned to vacation at the beach in August.

Question 49

A study of 36,000 families in France found that 35% planned to vacation at the beach in August.
Which of the following is the Sample?

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The vacation plans of 36,000 Families in France

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Families in France

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The vacation plans of all families in France

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35% planned to vacation at the beach in August.

Question 50

A study of 36,000 families in France found that 35% planned to vacation at the beach in August.
Which of the following is the Statistic?

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35% planned to vacation at the beach in August.

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Families in France

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The vacation plans of all families in France

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The vacation plans of 36,000 Families in France

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