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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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POL212
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Lack of _may be one of the limitations of statistics
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What is the third quatile of the following set of data 16, 25, 14, 18, 21, 23, 19, 18, 21, 49
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The primary purpose for is to discover, interpret develop methods and systems for the growth of knowledge
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Calculate the standard deviation of the following set of numbers: 148,146,150,154,156,158,160,162,164,166,168,170
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p AND q is a compound statement formed from two simple statements p and q respectively. What is the statement p ^ q
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Find the class mark in a grouped frequency table with the class interval 40 - 49
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A branch of _that deals with analysis and interpretations of numerical data in terms of sample and population is called statistics
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8. A pair of dice is tossed. Find the probability of getting a total of 10
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A ballot box containing 12 male voter's cards and another box containing 100 female voter's cards. Find the number of ways of selecting 5 male voter's cards
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10. If A= {a,b,c,d,e,f, g, h}, the cardinality of the elements is
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When a disfunction (OR) connective is used between two statements p, q, the statement p OR q is only false when
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In an objective test marked out of 40, the marks scored by 40 student are given in this table Marks % 1 - 5 6 - 10 11 - 20 21 - 30 31 - 35 36 - 40. Calculate the mean, using an assumed mean of 21 No. of Students 2 7 12 8 5 6
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Five delegates out of 6 women and 7 men are to represent an electoral body at a National election. In how many ways can the delegates be selected if it must consist of 2 women and 3 men
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Politics is a Social Science because it uses _tools for analysis
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15. In how many ways can the acronyms NOUN be written
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An advantage of frequency polygon over histogram is that it is easy to compare
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17. Coefficient of variation is equal to
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18. The biggest financial in scientific research funding is
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In a class of 181 student, 102 offers POL 212, 64 offer BHM 206, 58 offer POL 202 and all the students take at least one of the subjects. 20 offer POL 212 and BHM 206, 15 offer POL 212 and POL 202, 18 offer BHM 206 and POL 212. Find how many students offer BHM and POL 212 only
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There are basically two methods for assigning probabilities to events. One of these methods is
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21. Some of the functions of statistics in the society may be
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The values of __may be discrete or continuous
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23. How many subsets has a set consisting 4 elements
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24. Evaluate n! + 0! / 2
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In a Political group of 12 members the probability of picking a number from any one of the six geo-political zones in Nigeria is 2/3. If some members are to represent the group in a National meeting, find the probability that 8 members are chosen
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26. The symbol ∑ƒ means
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In a single toss of three fair coins. What is the probability of having exactly 2 tails
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Given a set of raw data 2, 3, 2, 1, 4, 4, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 0, 0, 0, 1. The date with the highest frequency is
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In a particular week, the number of student that enrols at various school at the National Open University of Nigeria is as follow; School of education 150; School of Arts and Social Sciences 360; School of Law 220; School of Science and Technology 250; School of management 600; School of Postgraduate Studies 420. If the information is represented on a pie chart, what angle will the School of Arts & Social Sciences be represented with
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Two sets X and Y are said to be _if they have no elements in common
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The probability of an event that can be obtained from an already existing result, from what is likely to happen or from already known information is termed
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Experimental Statistics
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33. Mode is the most __in a sample population
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If the probability of a pregnant woman giving birth to a male child is 0.25, what is the probability that the child will be a girl
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35. Find the third quartile in the following data set; 22,31,20,24,27,55
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The recommend that census should seek Age, Nationality, Sex and Weight is made by
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Hybrid sampling is a method that combines procedure
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38. The two types of statistics are
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In a class of 181 student, 102 offers POL 212, 64 offer BHM 206, 58 offer POL 202 and all the students take at least one of the subjects. 20 offer POL 212 and BHM 206, 15 offer POL 212 and POL 202, 18 offer BHM 206 and POL 212. Find how many students offer POL 212 only
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In a broad sense, _is a diagram that shows relationships between numbers
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In a social research, the act of reading through books by scholars on the subject matter is called _review
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When an experiments are actually carried out under the same condition through which an outcome is obtained. The probability of such an event is called
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If A= {a,b,c,d,e,f} and B={c,d,e}, then, it is correct to conclude that B is A
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The scientific method for collection, summarisation, presentation, analysis and interpretation of data is called
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One of the attributes of statistical inquires and sampling is that it enable researcher get __easily
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A branch of __that deals with analysis and interpretation of numerical data in terms of sample and population is called statistics
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The major challenge against accurate head count apart from funding and logistics is
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A folder contains 7 blue biros, 6 red biros and 3 black biros without replacement, find the probability that the three biros are of different colour
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All qualitative variables are measured on _scale
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