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2020
Quiz 1 Fall 2022 Topic: Descriptive Statistics Mechanical Engineering,
a numerical measurecalculated for popu lation data is called a
aParameter
b Statistic

empirical rule
d Probability distribution
which ofthe following variablesarequalitative.
a weight ofapackage
ofeyes
color peopleof
C number oftelevisions owned by families
d numberof birthson a day in a hospital_
which of the following is not ameasure ofcentraltendency

third quartile
b therange
C the mode
d all ofabove
in statistics, conducting asurvey means
collecting information from elements
b making mathematical calculations
drawing graphs and pictures.
none of above.
of ****

in statistics, a population consists

aall people living

*** in
a country

all the people living inthe area under study are being studied.
all subjects or objects
whose characteristics
d none of these.
the percentage a category is obtained by **
***
for

the frequencyof that category by 100

multip ying
multiplying the relative frequency
ofthat category by 100
C dividing therelativefrequency
ofthat category by 100
d none of these should always
the lower limit of the first class
when preparing afrequency distribution, in
value the data
be a number that is greater than the smallest

beequal to10 the smallest valuein

the data set
bea number that is less than orequal to
none ofthese of values in the data
set that are
a value gives thepercentage
the percentile of particular

smaller than that value

value
greater than that
equal than that value

d noneof thesee
which of the following can havemore than one value
the mean
a
b the median
therange
@ the mode_
is true of cumulative frequency ogives
for a particular set
which ofthe following statement

of data
curves have sameslope
both more-than"and "less-than
up andthe right
"more-than" curves slope
"less-than" curves slope
down andthe right
less-than" curves slope
up andthe right
Quiz 1 Fall 2022 Topic
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Sampling Distribution Mechancal Engneering
of the mean ef a finite poulatien usng an estimate of the pmpulatium
90
estimating the standard
the use of

.
standard deviation reyuires
for calculating the confidence interval.
a. the 1-distribution

the z- distrihution for caculating the confidence interval

for calculating the confidence interval.
the normal distribution

a)all ofalove table

of the is the necessary
condition for using a t-distribution
which following

n is small

isknown
C. the population is infinite

all of these
d.
degree of freedom used in
a t-distribution estimation isequal to
/the
the size
sample
size
b. the population
.
one one
less the

less
sample

the population
size_

size
which of the is a difference between z-table and 1-table
following

athe t-table has values for only a few percentages

we are estimating will be in our
the t-table measures the chance that the population parameter

. confidence interval

we must specify the degrees of freedom with which we are dealing when using a 2-table

all of these

the value ofs = (x-x)/n is

to estimate the population variance.

biased

unbiased

inconsistent

d. insufficient

the samples with size greater than 30. we use standard normal table because
when considering
freedom becomes difficult for sample size
the calculation of degree of large

we need for the calculation of confidence intervals exceeds

the number of percentages
it is difficut to calculate the sample mean for the large samples
none of these

should be used for calculating a

95 confidence interval for H. when N -S0, n=15.
which ofthe following
o-36. s*=49 and sample mean is 104

sampling without replacement

b. normal distribution

c finite population multiplier

all
we
ofthese
the sampling of thepopulation when
use normal distribution
can to
represent distribution

the sample size is more than 10

less than 50
b.thesample size is

size than
thesample is
more
5S
none of these
he average height of 25 students in a class is 66". In
constructing
a 95% confidence interval we use
with degree of freedom
the normal distribution 24
6the t-distribution with 24 degree
of freedom
65 degree of freedom
the t-distribution with

the t-distribution with 25 degree of freedom

a certain normally distributed population has a known standard deviation of 1.0, the width of a 95
interval for H is
confidence
1.96

0.98

C3.92
d.
d.ltcanno
cannot be determinedfrom the given
information