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Question 1
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Identify the sample and population: “100,000 randomly selected adults were asked whether they drink at least 48 oz of water each day
and only 45% said yes".

a. Sample: the 100,000 selected adults; population: all adults.

b. Sample: the 45,000 selected adults; population: all adults.

c. Sample: the 45,000 adults said yes; population: the 100,000 selected adults

The correct answer is:

Sample: the 100,000 selected adults; population: all adults.

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Question 2
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The article “Term Efficacy of Ribavirin Plus Interferon Alfa in the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C” [Gastroenterology (1996, Vol. 111(5),
pp. 1307–1312)], considered the effect of two treatments and a control for treatment of hepatitis C. The following table provides the
total patients in each group and the number that showed a complete (positive) response after 24 weeks of treatment.

Let A denote the event that the patient was treated with ribavirin plus interferon alfa, and let B denote the event that the response was
complete. Determine the number of patients in the event AUB.

a. 43
b. 27
c. 37
d. 86

The correct answer is:

27

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Question 3
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Which statement is true?

a. Statistics is not the science of collecting, analyzing, interpreting and drawing conclusions from data.

b. Probability models quantify the risks involved in decisions made every day.

c. A population contains only a portion of a sample of interest.

The correct answer is:

Probability models quantify the risks involved in decisions made every day.

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Question 4
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Samples of emissions from three suppliers are classified for conformance to air-quality specifications. The results

from 100 samples are summarized as follows:

Let A denote the event that a sample is from supplier 1, and let B denote the event that a sample conforms to specifications. Determine
the number of samples in A∩ B'.

a. 5
b. 30
c. 0.05
d. 8
e. 0.08

The correct answer is:

8

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Question 5
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Choose one true statement.

a. Empirical model directly developed from our theoretical understanding of the underlying mechanism.

b. Mechanistic model is not directly developed from our theoretical understanding of the underlying mechanism.

c. Empirical model uses our engineerring and scientific knowledge of the phenomenon.

d. Mechanistic model is not built from our underlying knowledge of the basic physical mechanism.

The correct answer is:

Empirical model uses our engineerring and scientific knowledge of the phenomenon.

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Question 6
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"Material
testing to determine which supplier’s material should be used in a product."

What type of collecting data have you done?

a. Observation study

b. Retrospective
study

c. Experiment

d. Interview

The correct answer is:

Experiment

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Question 7
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The collection and summarization of the socioeconomic and physical characteristics of the employees of a particular firm is an example
of

a. a parameter.

b. a statistic.

c. descriptive statistics.

d. inferential statistics.

The correct answer is:

descriptive statistics.

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Question 8
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Choose the true statements:

a. Population is any subset of the elements of a sample.

b. In statistical inference, the reasoning is from population to a sample .

c. Population is any finite or infinite collection of individual units or objects.

d. Population is in sample.

The correct answer is:

Population is any finite or infinite collection of individual units or objects.

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Suppose we take all the different families with exactly 3 children. The experiment consists in asking them the sex (or genders) of the
first, second and third children. Write down the sample space. Let us write 'B' for boy and 'G' for girl.

a. S = {BBB, BBG, BGB, BGG, GBB, GBG, GGG}

b. S = {BBB, BBG, BGB, BGG, GBB, GBG, GGB, GGG}

c. S = {BBB, BBG, BGG, GBB, GBG, GGB, GGG}

d. S = {BBB, BBG, BGB, GBG, GBB, GBG, GGB, GGG}

The correct answer is:

S = {BBB, BBG, BGB, BGG, GBB, GBG, GGB, GGG}

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Question 10
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Choose one true statement

a. A parameter summarizes
the value of a specific variable for sample data

b. random sample is selected in such a way so that every possible sample has the same probability of being selected.

c. random variable is a value that is less than 1.

The correct answer is:

random sample is selected in such a way so that every possible sample has the same probability of being selected.

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