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Descriptive Measures

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which measure of central tendency determines the most fashionable value?

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

2.

Which measure of central tendency is applicable only to quantitative data?

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

3.

Which measure of central tendency is easily affected by extreme values?

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

4.

Which measure of central tendency can be employed for both for quantitative and qualitative variables (ordinal)?

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

5.

Which measure of central tendency may or may not exists?

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

6.

Which measure of dispersion is quick and easy to understand?

a)

range

b)

coefficient of variation

c)

variance

d)

standard deviation

7.

Which measure of dispersion compares variability of data that come in different units of measurements?

a)

standard deviation

b)

variance

c)

range

d)

coefficient of variation

8.

Which measure of dispersion comes in the square of unit of measurement of given set of values?

a)

standard deviation

b)

variance

c)

coefficient of variation

d)

inter-quartile range

9.

Which measure of dispersion may be distorted by outliers?

a)

variance/standard deviation

b)

standard deviation/range

c)

range/variance

d)

none of the above

10.

The manager of a department store wants to find out the brand of shoes that most women prefer. The most appropriate measure of central tendency is ____________.

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

d)

standard deviation

11.

A quantitative variable takes on a constant value, 15, in a data set composed of ten observations. The standard deviation of the population of all such values is ________.

a)

0

b)

10

c)

15

d)

15/10