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Chapter 1 Assignment What is Statistics? Part 1

Classify the following sets of data as categorical or quantitative.

_______________ 1. The height of each member of a basketball team _______________ 2. The religious affiliations of school faculty members _______________ 3. Scores of students on the first statistics exam _______________ 4. The Olympic track and field world records _______________ 5. The color of Labrador puppies in a litter Part II

Classify the following sets of data as continuous or discrete.

_______________ 6. The number of sit-ups _______________ 7. The acceleration of an automobile _______________ 8. The number of pairs of shoes sold at a shoe store _______________ 9. The temperature of an oven _______________ 10. The diving depth of a submarine Part III

Identify the measurement scale of the following.

_______________ 11. Classification of the automobile size _______________ 12. The temperature readings in Nome, Alaska _______________ 13. College major _______________ 14. Number of traffic fatalities _______________ 15. Military rank _______________ 16. Time required to complete a crossword puzzle _______________ 17. Order of finish in the 1996 Manitoba Marathon _______________ 18. Number of people at a business meeting _______________ 19. The hair color of employees at Revy Hardware

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Part IV

Select the correct answer and write the appropriate letter in the space provided.

_________ 20. The collection of all possible individuals, objects, or measurements is called a. a sample. b. a ratio measurement. c. a population. d. an inference. _________ 21. Techniques used to organize, summarize, and present the data that have been collected are called a. populations. b. samples. c. inferential statistics. d. descriptive statistics. _________22. Techniques used to determine something about a population, based on a sample, are called

a. descriptive statistics. b. inferential statistics. c. populations. d. samples. __________ 23. On a street, the houses are numbered from 300 to 450.The house numbers are examples of a. b. c. d.

categorical data. quantitative data. both quantitative and categorical data. neither quantitative nor categorical data.

___________ 24. Arithmetic operations are inappropriate for a. categorical data. b. quantitative data. c. both categorical and quantitative data. d. neither categorical nor quantitative data

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