The slices of a pie chart must be arranged from largest to smallest in a clockwise direction.
A) True B) False
Q. 2If 25 of your statistics class is sophomores, then in a pie chart representing classifications of the students in your statistics class the slice assigned to sophomores is 90.
A) True B) False
Q. 3As part of an economics class project, students were asked to randomly select 500 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stocks from the Wall Street Journal.
As part of the project, students were asked to summarize the current prices (also referred to as the closing price of the stock for a particular trading date) of the collected stocks using graphical and numerical techniques. Identify the population of interest for this study.
A) the 500 NYSE stocks that current prices were collected from
B) the entire set of stocks that are traded on the NYSE
C) the current price (or closing price) of a NYSE stock
D) a single stock traded on the NYSE
Q. 4The table shows the number of each type of book found at an online auction site during a recent search.
Type of Book Number
Children's 51,033
Fiction 141,114
Nonfiction 253,074
Educational 67,252
a. Construct a relative frequency table for the book data.
b. Construct a pie chart for the book data.
Q. 5The data below show the types of medals won by athletes representing the United States in the Winter Olympics.
gold gold silver gold bronze silver silver
bronze gold silver silver bronze silver gold
gold silver silver bronze bronze gold silver
gold gold bronze bronze
a. Construct a frequency table for the data.
b. Construct a relative frequency table for the data.
c. Construct a frequency bar graph for the data.
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
Answer the question True or False.
Q. 6A study attempted to estimate the proportion of Florida residents who were willing to spend more tax dollars on protecting the Florida beaches from environmental disasters. Twenty-two hundred Florida residents were surveyed.
Which of the following describes the variable of interest in the study?
A) the response to the question Do you live along the beach?
B) the response to the question, Are you willing to spend more tax dollars on protecting the Florida beaches from environmental disasters?
C) the response to the question Do you use the beach?
D) the 2200 Florida residents surveyed
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