ACOT103 Preliminary Exam
ACOT103 Preliminary Exam
ACOT103 Preliminary Exam
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General Instructions: This test is worth 40 points. Answer all items. Work ALONE. If you have
questions, ask the teacher, not a classmate. You have until September 2, 2021 (3:00 pm) to submit
your answers sheets. Good luck!
For numbers 1 to 20, circle the letter of the choice that corresponds to the correct answer. Circling
none or multiple letters will make your answer wrong. Each item is worth 2 points.
2. The Amazing company wanted to have firsthand information for their study.
Which of the following will NOT be considered as a source of information of
their study?
A. Information from PSA
B. Employment data in an agency
C. Article from a magazine
D. Membership data in an organization
5. Students at a University were split into two groups and each received a different
text for a philosophy course. Once group received a traditional text book,
while the other received an interactive textbook on a tablet computer. After
the course, the final exam grades between the two groups of students were
compared. Which of the following is the independent variable in this study?
A. number of students C. tablet computer
B. final exam grade D. type of books used in class
6. The Pay It Forward Organization would like to know the level of readiness of
its members. Due to the lack of time, the organization wanted to get or gather
information from its 50 members only as a sample of the study. What process
of getting information are they going to do?
A. Survey B. Variable C. Census D. Parameters
7. Which of the following data does NOT belong to the group of sources of data?
A. Newspaper C. Government Agency
B. Magazine D. Journal
8. A study was done to find if different tire treads affect the braking distance of a
car. Which of the following is the independent variable in the study?
A. Tire treads C. Type of car
B. Braking distance D. Age of driver
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9. A large corporation wants to find out which benefits plan its employees would
prefer. Which procedure would be most likely to obtain a statistically unbiased
sample?
A. surveying a random sample of employees from a list of all employees
B. inviting all employees to indicate their choice by email
C. placing suggestion boxes at random locations in the company’s plant
and offices
D. assembling a group with one member from each department and record-
ing the preferences of these employees
10. Which method is most likely to produce a random sample of the members of
your class?
A. listing the first six students that come to mind
B. choosing the five oldest students in the class
C. writing the name of each student on separate pieces of paper then
drawing these slips from a hat
D. selecting the first six students to arrive in class
11. The number of words printed in each of 12 randomly selected story books of the
writer Jen Tan is listed as follows: 502, 213, 335, 197, 414, 469, 497, 367, 409,
297, 309, 414. What is the range of the sample set of data?
A. 6 B. 305 C. 414 D. 368.58
12. A manufacturer of contact lenses is studying the curvature of the lenses it sells.
In particular, the last 500 lenses sold had an average curvature of 0.5. What is
the population?
A. the 500 lenses
B. 0.5
C. the lenses sold today
D. all the lenses sold by the manufacturer
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13. A survey will be given to 100 students randomly selected from the freshmen
class at Wisconsin High School. What is the sample?
A. all freshmen at Wisconsin High School
B. all students at Wisconsin High School
C. the 100 selected students
D. all students at Wisconsin High School
14. A researcher is studying students in college in Texas. She takes a sample of 400
students from 10 colleges. The average age of all college students in Texas is
A. a statistic. C. the median.
B. a parameter. D. a population.
15. A researcher plans to get 588 sample units from a population N using a 4%
margin of error. What is the value of the population N ?
A. 302.97 B. 9932 C. 239.8 D. 1042
16. What is the best sampling technique to use for determining the average speed
of the cars on a section of highway?
A. Simple Random C. Systematic
B. Convenience D. Quota
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18. To survey the opinions of the students at a high school, a researcher plans to
select every twenty-fifth student entering the school in the morning. Assuming
there are no absences, will this result in a simple random sample of students
attending your school?
A. Yes, because every student has the same chance of being selected.
B. Yes, but only if there is only a single entrance to the school.
C. No, because not every sample of the intended size has an equal chance
of being selected.
D. Yes, because this is an example of systematic sampling, which is a
special case of random sampling.
20. What is the relative frequency of the class with range “65-69”?
A. 0.1% B. 1% C. 10% D. 100%
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