stat ch1 practice quiz

A gaming website wanted to find out which console its visitors owned. Which choice best represents a population?

• Visitors to the 3DS section.

• All of the website visitors.

• Visitors to the PS4 section.

• Visitors who are on the website for more than 5 minutes.

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

A group of librarians are interested in the numbers of books and other media that patrons check out from their library. They examine the checkout records of 150 randomly selected adult patrons.

• The population is all adult patrons of the library; the sample is the 150 patrons selected.

• The population is all patrons of the library; the sample is the adult patrons of the library.

• The population is all patrons who check out at least 111 book from the library; the sample is the 150 patrons selected.

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Convenience sample and voluntary response sample are types of...

• biased samples

• unbiased samples

A real estate agent surveys people about their housing preferences at an open house for a luxury townhouse.

• Biased Sample

• Unbiased Sample

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Sixty-two of the 97 passengers aboard the Hindenburg airship survived its explosion.

• parameter
• statistic

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

What type of Data are we collecting when asking: "What kind on pet do you have?"

• Categorical Data

• Quantitative Data

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CCSS.HSS.ID.B.5

The time it takes for a light bulb to burn out. 

• Discrete
• Continuous

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CCSS.HSF-LE.A.1B

Which one of the following is discrete data?

• Sam is 160 cm tall
• Sam weighs 60 lbs.
• Sam ran 100 meters in 10.2 seconds
• Sam has two brothers and one sister

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CCSS.HSF-LE.A.1B