document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=200739>Question 200739</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Can someone please help me ASAP. I have in the process of relocating and have lost my book and this is my last test with no resources. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1.	(2 pts) The objective of statistics is best described as: \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A) To make inferences about a sample based on information we get from a population<BR>\n" );
document.write( "B) To make inferences about a population based on information we get from a sample taken from the population<BR>\n" );
document.write( "C) To use population mean, &#61549; as an estimate of the sample mean,  <BR>\n" );
document.write( "D) To make inferences about a sample with a high degree of reliability\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2.	(5 pts) Construct a frequency distribution of the ages that 30 randomly selected smokers started smoking:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "25	26	25	17	16	16	14	17	21	16<BR>\n" );
document.write( "15	18	17	15	15	19	16	17	23	15<BR>\n" );
document.write( "19	17	16	26	16	25	16	17	22	24\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "14=1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          15=4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          16=7<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          17=6<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          18=1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          19=2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          21=1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          22=1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          23=1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          24=1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          25=3<BR>\n" );
document.write( "          26=2\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3.	(2 pts) Three-fourths of the numbers in any data set will be larger than the \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A) third quartile 		B) fourth quartile	C) median	D) midrange\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "4.	(2 pts) The number that appears most frequently in a data set is the \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A) mean 	B) midrange	C) median	D) mode\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "5.	(2 pts) Half of the scores in any data set are below the\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A) first quartile	   B) second quartile	C) third quartile	   D) median\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "6.	(6 pts) Find the mean, median, and mode for the following set of data which shows the number of pages per article in a random sample of magazine articles.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "6	7	5	4	7	5	5	7<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8	5	3	6	8	9	5\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "7.	(8 pts) Construct a histogram and a frequency polygon for the following frequency distribution\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Miles 		Number of Commuters<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Class		    Frequency<BR>\n" );
document.write( " 0 -  20			7<BR>\n" );
document.write( "21 - 40		             3<BR>\n" );
document.write( "41 - 60		           12<BR>\n" );
document.write( "61 - 80		           10<BR>\n" );
document.write( "81 –100	             4<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "4) D<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5) median<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6) means=6, median=6, mode=5 </SPAN>\n" );
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