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Ch3 practice

1. In a statistic class, 10 scores were randomly selected with the following results were
obtained: 74, 73, 77, 77, 71, 68, 65, 77, 67, 66
What is the 65th percentile?
a. 73.5
b. 75.5
c. 73
d. 74
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2. If a population distribution is skewed to the right, then, given a random sample from that
population, one would expect that the
a. median would be greater than the mean.
b. mode would be equal to the mean
c. median would be less than the mean
d. median would be equal to the mean
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3. If the mean, median, and mode for a given population all equal 25, then we Know that its
distribution is
a. bimodal
b. skewed to the right
c. symmetric
d. skewed to the left
4. If one intends to compare the relative variation between two samples involving two
different quantitative variables with different measurement scales (different means), then
the most appropriate way is to compare the two samples'
a. STD
b. Variance
c. coefficient of variation
d. range
5. A quantity that measures the variation of a population or a sample relative to its mean is
called the
a. Range
b. STD
c. Coefficient of variation
d. Interquartile range
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6. Find the coefficient of variation for IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation
of 15.
a. 225%
b. 67%
c. 6.7%
d. 15%

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7. Find the z-score for an IQ test score of 58 when the mean is 100 and the standard
deviation is 15.
a. 42
b. 2.8
c. 18.78
d. -2.8
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8. Find the z-score for an IQ test score of 118 when the mean is 100 and the standard
deviation is 15.
a. 1.2
b. 1.0
c. 18
d. -1.03
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9. According to a survey of the top 10 employers in a major city in the Midwest, a worker
spends an average of 413 minutes a day on the job. Suppose the standard deviation is
26.8 minutes and the time spent is approximately a normal distribution.
What are the times that approximately 68.26% of all workers will fall?
a. [394.8, 431.2]
b. [386.2, 439.8]
c. [372.8, 453.2]
d. [359.4, 466.6]
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10. According to a survey of the top 10 employers in a major city in the Midwest, a worker
spends an average of 413 minutes a day on the job. Suppose the standard deviation is
26.8 minutes and the time spent is approximately a normal distribution.
What are the times that approximately 95.44% of all workers will fall?
a. [387.5, 438.5]
b. [359.4, 466.6]
c. [372.8, 453.2]
d. [332.6, 493.4]
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11. In a statistic class, 10 scores were randomly selected with the following results were
obtained (mean = 71.5): 74, 73, 77, 77, 71, 68, 65, 77, 67, 66
What is the variance?
a. 22.72
b. 12
c. 4.77
d. 516.2
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12. In a hearing test, subjects estimate the loudness (in decibels) of sound, and the results are
(sample mean = 70): 68, 67, 70, 71, 68, 75, 68, 62, 80, 73, 68
What is the standard deviation?
a. 18
b. 4.73
c. 22.4
d. 324
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13. The company financial officer was interested in the average cost of PCs that had been
purchased in the past six months. A random sample of the price of 5 computers was taken
with the following results: $3250, $3200, $3150, $3300, $3350. What is the standard
deviation?
a. 6250
b. 5000
c. 70.7107
d. 79.0569
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14. In a statistic class, 10 scores were randomly selected with the following results were
obtained: 74, 73, 77, 77, 71, 68, 65, 77, 67, 66
What is the 90th percentile?
a. 77
b. 73
c. 74
d. 67
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15. In a statistic class, 10 scores were randomly selected with the following results were
obtained: 74, 73, 77, 77, 71, 68, 65, 77, 67, 66
What is the third quartile?
a. 65.5
b. 67.5
c. 66
d. 77
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16. If the coefficient of variation is 40% and the mean is 70, then the variance is
a. 28
b. 2800
c. 1.75
d. 784
17. According to a survey of the top 10 employers in a major city in the Midwest, a worker
spends an average of 240 minutes a day on the job. Suppose the standard deviation is 26
minutes and the time spent is approximately a bell-shaped distribution.

Approximately, ___________ percent of the workers will spend below 292 minutes a day
on the job.
Approximately, ___________ percent of the workers will spend between 266 and 292
minutes a day on the job
18.
Consider the following population of five numbers: 6, 8, 13, 14, 16. Calculate the
variance, and standard deviation of this population (Round variance to 2 decimal
places, round standard deviation to 4 decimal places.)
19. The Morningstar Top Fund lists at the Morningstar.com website give the mean yearly
return and the standard deviation of the returns for each of the listed funds. As given by
Morningstar.com on March 17, 2005, the RS Internet Age Fund has a mean yearly return of
10.93 percent with a standard deviation of 43.96 percent; the Franklin Income A fund has a
mean yearly return of 13 percent with a standard deviation of 9.81 percent; the Jacob Internet
fund has a mean yearly return of 34.45 percent with a standard deviation of 43.12 percent.
(a) For each mutual fund, find an interval in which you would expect 95.44 percent of all yearly
returns to fall. Assume returns are normally distributed. (Round your answers to 4 decimal places. A
negative sign should be used instead of parentheses.
(b) Calculate the coefficient of variation for each mutual fund, and use your results to

compare the funds with respect to risk. Which fund is riskier?

20. Below you are given the ages of a sample of 5 college students who are enrolled in
statistics.
20, 18, 20, 22, 25. Please find the coefficient of variation of ages in this sample.
21. If we find the correlation coefficient between education (measured in years) and hourly
wage is 0.85, what is the meaning of this?
22. Household incomes in Kennesaw area follow a bell-shaped distribution with a standard
deviation of $55,000. If approximately 15.87% of the households have an income higher than
$120,000, please apply the empirical rule and tell what the average household income in
Kennesaw is?