STT205




Category: STT205

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Kindly note that you will be presented with 50 questions randomized from the NOUN question bank. Make sure to take the quiz multiple times so you can get familiar with the questions and answers, as new questions are randomized in each attempt.

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STT205

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1. The square root of the sum of deviations of a set of numbers from their arithmetic mean is

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The suitable average for qualitative data is: ________


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If the arithmetic mean of the two numbers X1 and X2 is 5 if X1=3, then X2 is:_________ 

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4. Which of the following is not a source of data?

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5. 36. If 5, 8, 6 and 2 occur with frequencies 3, 2, 4 and 1 respectively, find the mean

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 The first step in calculating the median of a discrete variable is to determine the: _______


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 If the smallest observation in a data is decreased, the average which is not affected is: ____   


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8. If the mode of the distribution is X the [frac{X}{2}] in the table below is _____________

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9. Calculate 70% of the mean of the set of data in the table below

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10. Primary data is not collected through ___________

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11. In an examination the score obtained is weighted 3 times as much as a test score. If a student scored 85% in the examination with a test score of 90%, what is his mean score

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12. What is the cumulative frequency of 40 in table below?

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The median is considered a robust measure because it is resistant to: ________


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14. An impossible event has the probability ______

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15. The empirical relationship between the mean and median is given by; mean �?? mode = x(mean �?? median) in the table below . Then x is _________________

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16. _____ is the degree of peakness of a distribution

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Ten families have an average of 2 boys. How many boys do they have together?

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The frequency distribution of the hourly wage rate of 60 employees of a paper mill is as follows: The mean wage rate is:N______
 

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19. Suppose there are 70 students in an examination with the students writing at least one of the subjects; Chemistry, Physics and Biology. Thirty(30) students offer Physics, 33 offer Chemistry and 40 offer biology, 10 students offer both Physics and Chemistry. Fourteen (14) of the students offer Physics and Biology, and 15 of them offer Biology and Chemistry. How many students offer only Biology

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When the values in a series are not of equal importance, we calculate the: _____________


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The total of all the observations divided by the number of observations is called: ______


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22.
Step deviation method or coding method is used for computation of the______


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23.  Which of these is closer to the mode for a skewed distribution?

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The sum of deviations is zero when deviations are taken from:________

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25. The sum of the frequencies of 16 and 18 in the table below is _____________

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26. The addition rule of probability is used for ___ events

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If a constant value is added to every observation of data, how would the value of the arithmetic mean behave? ________


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The arithmetic mean of 10 items is 4 and the arithmetic mean of 5 items is 10. The combined arithmetic mean is: ______

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The mean of 10 observations is 10. All the observations are increased by 10%. The mean of increased observations will be: ______

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Sum of absolute deviations of the values is least when deviations are taken from: ________

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The arithmetic mean is highly affected by: ________

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32. ____ is not an advantage of secondary data

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The sum of deviations taken from mean is: _______________

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34. The following are examples of discrete random variables except

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35. If at least one of the events of an experiment can occur, then they are said to be ________ events

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36. Suppose there are 70 students in an examination with the students writing at least one of the subjects; Chemistry, Physics and Biology. Thirty(30) students offer Physics, 33 offer Chemistry and 40 offer biology, 10 students offer both Physics and Chemistry. Fourteen (14) of the students offer Physics and Biology, and 15 of them offer Biology and Chemistry. Find the number of students that offer all subjects

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Given X1=20 and X2=-20. The arithmetic mean will be: ________

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38. A characteristics that assumes different values for different entities is called __________________

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Scores that differ greatly from the measures of central tendency are called:_________

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40.
The midpoint of the values after they have been ordered from the smallest to the largest or the largest to the smallest is called:____


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41. The square root of the sum of deviations of a set of numbers from their arithmetic mean is ___________

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42. Which of the following statement does not represent a role of statistics in the society?

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43. ____ statistics deals with methods of organizing, summarizing and presenting data in an informative way

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44. What is the probability of not getting a 1 in the toss of a single die?

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45. The first step involved in constructing a group frequency distribution is to _________ (a) (b) count the number of items

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46. What is the geometric mean of 3, 5, 6, and 7

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47. What is the sum of the medians of {3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 8, 8, 10} and {5, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 18}

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48. Calculate the standard deviation of the set of data in the table below

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49. What is the relative cumulative frequency of 50 in the table below

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The sample mean X- is an example of a: ________________ 

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