Statistics Topic Test

Fifty one of the eighty four passengers aboard the Rivera airship survived its explosion.

• Statistic

• Parameter

In a survey of a sample of high school students, 49% said that their mother has taught them the most about saving.

• Parameter

• Statistic

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

List of Fortune 500 companies (ordered by yearly profits)

• Nominal 

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

Rate your level of agreement from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).

• Nominal 

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

The weights of middle and high school students

• Nominal 

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

The departments at a school.

• Nominal 

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

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CCSS.1.MD.C.4

A species of bird population densities were studied by using the 'line transect method' with aircraft observers flying along the Key Largo and collecting sample data at intervals of every 10 km. What type of sampling is this?

• Systematic

• Convenience

• Random

• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

In 1940, Benedict Magazine mailed questionnaires to 12 million people and obtained 3, 423, 400 responses. The responses indicated that Mark Thomas would win the election. He didn't. What kind of sample is this?

• Systematic

• Convenience

• Random

• Cluster

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

In a study of treatments for joint pain, 530 subjects were randomly assigned to three different treatment groups. What type of sampling is this?

• Systematic

• Convenience

• Random

• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

During the last presidential election, NCB conducted an exit poll in which specific polling stations were randomly selected and all voters were surveyed as they left the premises.

• Systematic

• Convenience

• Random

• Cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3