Quiz about Describing Distributions

Question 1

Describe the Shape of the Distribution.

Accepted Answer

Unimodal and roughly symmetric

Answer

Multimodal and roughly symmetric

Answer

Bimodal and skewed right

Answer

Unimodal and skewed right

Question 2

Which measure of center should you use?

Accepted Answer

Mean

Answer

Median

Question 3

Describe the Shape of the Distribution.

Accepted Answer

Bimodal and roughly symmetric

Answer

Multimodal and roughly symmetric

Answer

Unimodal and roughly symmetric

Answer

Bimodal and skewed left

Question 4

Describe the Shape of the Distribution.

Accepted Answer

Unimodal and skewed right

Answer

Unimodal and roughly symmetric

Answer

Unimodal and skewed left

Answer

Bimodal and roughly symmetric

Question 5

Which measure of center should you use?

Accepted Answer

Median

Answer

Mean

Question 6

Describe the Shape of the Distribution.

Accepted Answer

Unimodal and skewed right

Answer

Unimodal and roughly symmetric

Answer

Unimodal and skewed left

Answer

Bimodal and roughly symmetric

Question 7

Describe the variability of the distribution.

Accepted Answer

The number of birds varies from 13 to 67, a range of 54.

Answer

There is little variation from 1 to 6, so the range is 5.

Answer

The distribution is spread from 10 to 60.

Answer

The variation in the number of leaves is 1 to 6 per stem.

Question 8

Describe the Shape of the Distribution.

Accepted Answer

Unimodal and skewed left

Answer

Unimodal and roughly symmetric

Answer

Unimodal and skewed right

Answer

Bimodal and roughly symmetric

Describing Distributions