Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making 3rd Canadian Edition by Ken Black Test bank

scale?
a) interval level data
b) ordinal level data
c) nominal level data
d) ratio level data
e) relative level data
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between variables, measurement, and data, and
compare the four different levels of data: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
Section Reference: 1.2 Variables, Data and Data Measurement
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic
88. Which types of data are normally used in parametric statistics?
a) interval or ratio level data
b) ordinal or nominal level data
c) nominal or ratio level data
d) ratio or ordinal level data
e) relative or ratio level data
Answer: a
Difficulty: Hard
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Learning Objective: Explain the difference between variables, measurement, and data, and
compare the four different levels of data: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
Section Reference: 1.2 Variables, Data and Data Measurement
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic
89. Which types of data are normally used with nonparametric statistics?
a) interval or ratio level data
b) ordinal or nominal level data
c) nominal or ratio level data
d) ratio or ordinal level data
e) relative or ratio level data
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between variables, measurement, and data, and
compare the four different levels of data: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
Section Reference: 1.2 Variables, Data and Data Measurement
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic
90. How much inventory do Christmas tree sales lots keep? A researcher goes from location to
location around the city counting the number of trees in each lot. These numbers most likely
represent what level of data?
a) interval level
b) ordinal level
c) nominal level
d) ratio level
e) relative level
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between variables, measurement, and data, and
compare the four different levels of data: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
Section Reference: 1.2 Variables, Data and Data Measurement
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic
91. During the Valentine season, different offices in a company are encouraged to decorate
their doors. A committee then goes around and ranks the doors according to how well the doors
are decorated. The best door gets a ranking of “1”; the second best gets a ranking of “2”, etc.
The numbers of these rankings represent which level of data?
a) interval level
b) ordinal level
c) nominal level
d) ratio level
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e) relative level
Answer: b
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between variables, measurement, and data, and
compare the four different levels of data: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
Section Reference: 1.2 Variables, Data and Data Measurement
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic
92. A large manufacturing company in Sarnia produces valves for the chemical industry.
According to specifications, one particular valve is supposed to have a five-inch opening on the
side. Quality control inspectors take random samples of these valves just after the hole is bored.
They measure the size of the hole in an effort to determine if the machine is out-of-adjustment.
The measurement of the diameter of the hole represents which level of data?
a) interval level
b) ordinal level
c) nominal level
d) central level
e) ratio level
Answer: e
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between variables, measurement, and data, and
compare the four different levels of data: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
Section Reference: 1.2 Variables, Data and Data Measurement
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic
93. A marketing demographic survey is undertaken to determine the market potential for a new
product. One of the questions asked is: What type of residence do you live in? Respondents are
offered several possible answers including: house, apartment, or condominium. In order to
computerize the survey answers, the responses are coded as a 1 if the answer is "house", a 2 if
the answer is an "apartment", and a 3 if the answer is a "condominium". These numbers, 1, 2,
and 3, are examples of which level of data?
a) interval level
b) ordinal level
c) nominal level
d) ratio level
e) relative level
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between variables, measurement, and data, and