Introduction to the Practice of Statistics 9th edition by David S. Moore Test bank

 
 
81.Malaria is a leading cause of infectious disease and death worldwide. The table below represents the mean number of reported malaria cases (between 1996 and 2006) for each of 10 West African countries, as published in the journal Statistica Neerlandica in 2010.
 

 
True or False. Making a histogram of the data would tell us if the distribution of the malaria data is symmetric.
 A)True
 B)False
 
 
82.Malaria is a leading cause of infectious disease and death worldwide. The table below represents the mean number of reported malaria cases (between 1996 and 2006) for each of 10 West African countries, as published in the journal Statistica Neerlandica in 2010.
 

 
Why is it not appropriate to use a histogram to display these data?
 A)A pie chart is much easier to read.
 B)The data are categorical and therefore a histogram is not appropriate.
 C)The width of the bins would be too large to display a histogram.
 D)None of the above
 
 
83.The World Malaria Report (2008) has information on the number of reported malaria cases from 2005 and 2006 for the 10 countries listed in West Africa. The data are presented in the table below.
 
Country/area 2005 2006
Benin803,462861,847
Burkina Faso1,615,6952,060,867
Côte d'Ivoire1,280,9141,253,408
Gambia161,698266,188
Ghana3,452,9693,511,452
Liberia116,6811,105,272
Mali962,7061,022,592
Senegal1,346,1581,555,310
Sierra Leone233,833160,666
Togo437,662566,450
 
The mean of the reported West African malaria cases in 2005 is ___________.
 A)less than 116,698
 B)greater than 1,600,000
 C)100,000
 D)greater than 200,000
 
 
84.The World Malaria Report (2008) has information on the number of reported malaria cases from 2005 and 2006 for the 10 countries listed in West Africa. The data are presented in the table below.
 
Country/area 2005 2006
Benin803,462861,847
Burkina Faso1,615,6952,060,867
Côte d'Ivoire1,280,9141,253,408
Gambia161,698266,188
Ghana3,452,9693,511,452
Liberia116,6811,105,272
Mali962,7061,022,592
Senegal1,346,1581,555,310
Sierra Leone233,833160,666
Togo437,662566,450
 
The median of the reported malaria cases in 2005 is _________.
 A)less than 1,000,000
 B)less than 200,000
 C)100,000
 D)3,000,000
 
 
85.The World Malaria Report (2008) has information on the number of reported malaria cases from 2005 and 2006 for the 10 countries listed in West Africa. The data are presented in the table below.
 
Country/area 2005 2006
Benin803,462861,847
Burkina Faso1,615,6952,060,867
Côte d'Ivoire1,280,9141,253,408
Gambia161,698266,188
Ghana3,452,9693,511,452
Liberia116,6811,105,272
Mali962,7061,022,592
Senegal1,346,1581,555,310
Sierra Leone233,833160,666
Togo437,662566,450
 
The mean reported malaria cases in 2006 is _________.
 A)less than 2,000,000
 B)less than 200,000
 C)100,000
 D)3,000,000
 
 
86.The World Malaria Report (2008) has information on the number of reported malaria cases from 2005 and 2006 for the 10 countries listed in West Africa. The data are presented in the table below.
 
Country/area 2005 2006
Benin803,462861,847
Burkina Faso1,615,6952,060,867
Côte d'Ivoire1,280,9141,253,408
Gambia161,698266,188
Ghana3,452,9693,511,452
Liberia116,6811,105,272
Mali962,7061,022,592
Senegal1,346,1581,555,310
Sierra Leone233,833160,666
Togo437,662566,450
 
The mean of the reported West African malaria cases in 2006 is ___________.
 A)around 1,000,000
 B)less than 200,000
 C)100,000
 D)3,000,000
 
 
87.The World Malaria Report (2008) has information on the number of reported malaria cases from 2005 and 2006 for the 10 countries listed in West Africa. The data are presented in the table below.
 
Country/area 2005 2006
Benin803,462861,847
Burkina Faso1,615,6952,060,867
Côte d'Ivoire1,280,9141,253,408
Gambia161,698266,188
Ghana3,452,9693,511,452
Liberia116,6811,105,272
Mali962,7061,022,592
Senegal1,346,1581,555,310
Sierra Leone233,833160,666
Togo437,662566,450
 
The mean number of malaria cases in 2006 is probably ______.
 A)higher than in 2005
 B)lower than in 2005
 C)exactly the same as in 2005
 
 
88.The World Malaria Report (2008) has information on the number of reported malaria cases from 2005 and 2006 for the 10 countries listed in West Africa. The data are presented in the table below.