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Assignment #1 Rev. Unit 7 11/23

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Given a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 7, what percentage of scores are above 82?

a)

34%

b)

81.5%

c)

16%

d)

2.5%

2.

Given a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 7, what percentage of scores are greater than 68?

a)

34%

b)

84%

c)

95%

d)

68%

3.

Given a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 7, how many students out of 500 would score higher than 82?

a)

475

b)

170

c)

237

d)

80

4.

Given a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 7, how many students out of 500 would score between 68 and 82

a)

11

b)

2

c)

340

d)

498

5.

Given a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 7, how many students out of 500 would score higher than 68?

a)

11

b)

12

c)

420

d)

250

6.

A recent survey found that 77% of high schoolers use their phones more than 4 hours a day on average. The margin of error was 3%. What is the interval for which we could expect to find the truth of the population?

a)

77% - 80%

b)

74% - 77%

c)

74% - 80%

d)

50 million high schoolers - 120 million

7.

A research team surveys 1001 adults, asking them how many hours they work per week. What is the margin of error for this survey?

a)

3%

b)

32%

c)

63%

d)

9%

8.

A research team surveys 200 high schoolers at glenoak. They find that 57% of them drive to school every day. What is the margin of error?

a)

95%

b)

14%

c)

7%

d)

3%

9.
A sample is taken of 200 people. The number of people who own a dog was 80.
What is the sample proportion?
a)
80
b)
0.8
c)
0.4
d)
35%
10.

A sample is taken of 240 people. The number of people who will vote for Candidate A was 112.. What is the sample proportion?

a)

0.35

b)

0.57

c)

0.47

d)

0.8

11.

A farmer subdivides his apple orchard into 50 subsections and selects the five subsections closest to his barn to sample all the trees.

a)

Convenience

b)

Systematic

c)

Stratified

d)

Simple Random

12.

A teacher puts all her students' names in hat, then selects 3 names from the hat. These students will take a standardized test.

a)

Convenience

b)

Systematic

c)

Stratified

d)

Simple Random

13.

You observe the color of cars parked near you in a parking lot to decide the most popular color of car.

a)

Convenience

b)

Systematic

c)

Stratified

d)

Simple Random

14.

Survey 10 students from every classroom in a building on campus.

a)

Convenience

b)

Systematic

c)

Stratified

d)

Simple Random

15.

If you choose 5 bingo balls from a basket of 50 balls, what sampling technique are you using?

a)

Simple Random

b)

Voluntary Response

c)

Convenience

d)

Stratified

16.
How many variables should you change in an experiment?
a)
none
b)
1
c)
2 or more
d)
depends on the type of experiment
17.

Dr. Larson was interested in whether classical music helps students perform better on a test. Dr. Larson randomly assigned half of the study's participants to a group that listened to classical music while taking a test. The other half of the participants did not listen to music while taking a test. The research design Dr. Larson used is...

a)

a case study

b)

an experiment

c)

an observation

d)

a survey

18.

A psychologist designed a study to test the effects of cell phone use on driving safety. Participants were randomly assigned either to drive an automobile simulator while talking to a friend on a cell phone or to drive a simulator without talking on a phone.

Which type of research does the scenario describe?

a)

Correlational

b)

Observation

c)

Case Study

d)

Experiment

19.

To test the effects of eating breakfast on test grades. I randomly select half of my students and feed them breakfast while giving the other half nothing to eat. I then give them all a test and compare the test grades of each group.

Is this an experiment or an observational study?

a)

Experiment

b)

Observational study

c)

Neither

d)

Both experiment and observational study.

20.

Identify each of the following as an observational study or an experiment.


Compare the grades on a final math test of 25 students who were given a calculator to use and 25 students who do not use calculators.

a)

Observational Study

b)

Experiment