Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel 9th Global Edition by David Levine Test bank
The distance you drove yesterday.
The number of employees of an insurance company
ANSWER:
d
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy
KEYWORDS: discrete variable, types of data
c
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy
KEYWORDS: continuous variable, types of data
b
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Moderate
KEYWORDS: discrete variable, types of data
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d
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy
KEYWORDS: discrete variable, types of data
- Which of the following is a continuous quantitative (numerical) variable?
- The color of a student’s eyes
- The number of employees of an insurance company
- The amount of milk in a 2-liter carton.
- The number of gallons of milk sold at the local grocery store yesterday
c
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy
KEYWORDS: continuous variable, types of data
- To monitor campus security, the campus police office is taking a survey of the number of students in a parking lot each 30 minutes of a 24-hour period with the goal of determining when patrols of the lot would serve the most students. If X is the number of students in the lot each period, then X is an example of
- a categorical variable.
- a discrete variable.
- a continuous variable.
- a statistic.
b
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Moderate
KEYWORDS: discrete variable, types of data
- Researchers are concerned that the weight of the average American school child is increasing implying, among other things, that children’s clothing should be manufactured and marketed in larger sizes. If X is the weight of school children sampled in a nationwide study without rounding, then X is an example of
- a categorical variable.
- a discrete variable.
- a continuous variable.
- a table of random numbers.
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ANSWER:
c
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Moderate
KEYWORDS: continuous variable, types of data
- The classification of student class designation (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) is an example of
- a categorical variable.
- a discrete variable.
- a continuous variable.
- a table of random numbers.
a
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy
KEYWORDS: categorical variable, types of data
- The classification of student major (accounting, economics, management, marketing, other) is an example of
- a categorical variable.
- a discrete variable.
- a continuous variable.
- a table of random numbers.
a
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy
KEYWORDS: categorical variable, types of data
- The chancellor of a major university was concerned about alcohol abuse on her campus and wanted to find out the proportion of students at her university who visited campus bars on the weekend before the final exam week. Her assistant took a random sample of 250 students. The answer on “whether you visited campus bars on the weekend before the final exam week” from students in the sample is an example of .
- a categorical variable.
- a discrete variable.
- a continuous variable.
- a table of random numbers.
a
TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy
KEYWORDS: categorical variable, types of data
SCENARIO 1-1
The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products.