Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel 6th Edition by David R. Anderson Test bank

REFERENCES:  Data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  MBST.ASWC.18.01.02 - 1.2
NATIONAL STANDARDS:  United States - Business Program.1: - Reflective Thinking
KEYWORDS:  Bloom's: Knowledge
 
26. In an application for a credit card, potential customers are asked for their social security numbers. A social security number is an example of a _____.
 a. categorical variable
 b. quantitative variable
 c. categorical or quantitative variable, depending on how the respondents answered the question
 d. ratio variable
 
ANSWER:  a
POINTS:  1
DIFFICULTY:  Easy
REFERENCES:  Data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  MBST.ASWC.18.01.02 - 1.2
NATIONAL STANDARDS:  United States - Business Program.1: - Reflective Thinking
KEYWORDS:  Bloom's: Knowledge
 
27. Temperature is an example of which scale of measurement?
 a. nominal
 b. ordinal
 c.  interval
 d.  ratio
 
ANSWER:  c
POINTS:  1
DIFFICULTY:  Easy
REFERENCES:  Data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  MBST.ASWC.18.01.02 - 1.2
NATIONAL STANDARDS:  United States - Business Program.1: - Reflective Thinking
KEYWORDS:  Bloom's: Knowledge
 
28. For ease of data entry into a university database, 1 denotes the student is enrolled in an undergraduate degree program, 2 indicates the student is enrolled in a master’s degree program, and 3 indicates the student is enrolled in a doctoral degree program. In this case, the data are which scale of measurement?
 a. nominal
 b. ordinal
 c. interval
 d. ratio
 
ANSWER:  b
POINTS:  1
DIFFICULTY:  Easy
REFERENCES:  Data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  MBST.ASWC.18.01.02 - 1.2
NATIONAL STANDARDS:  United States - Business Program.1: - Reflective Thinking
KEYWORDS:  Bloom's: Knowledge
 
29. Income is an example of _____.
 a. categorical data
 b. either categorical or quantitative data
 c. currency data
 d. quantitative data
 
ANSWER:  d
POINTS:  1
DIFFICULTY:  Easy
REFERENCES:  Data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  MBST.ASWC.18.01.02 - 1.2
NATIONAL STANDARDS:  United States - Business Program.1: - Reflective Thinking
KEYWORDS:  Bloom's: Knowledge
 
30. The birth weight of newborns, measured in grams, is an example of _____.
 a. categorical data
 b. either categorical or quantitative data
 c. neither categorical nor quantitative data
 d. quantitative data
 
ANSWER:  d
POINTS:  1
DIFFICULTY:  Easy
REFERENCES:  Data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  MBST.ASWC.18.01.02 - 1.2
NATIONAL STANDARDS:  United States - Business Program.1: - Reflective Thinking
KEYWORDS:  Bloom's: Knowledge
 
31. The graph below best exemplifies a _____.
       
(Graph courtesy of Robert Allison.)
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 a. bar graph
 b. time series graph
 c. cross-sectional graph
 d. line graph
 
ANSWER:  b
POINTS:  1
DIFFICULTY:  Easy
REFERENCES:  Data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  MBST.ASWC.18.01.02 - 1.2
NATIONAL STANDARDS:  United States - Business Program.1: - Reflective Thinking
KEYWORDS:  Bloom's: Knowledge
 
32. The graph below best exemplifies a _____.
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 a. bar graph
 b. time series graph
 c. cross-sectional graph
 d. line graph
 
ANSWER:  c
POINTS:  1
DIFFICULTY:  Easy
REFERENCES:  Data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  MBST.ASWC.18.01.02 - 1.2
NATIONAL STANDARDS:  United States - Business Program.1: - Reflective Thinking
KEYWORDS:  Bloom's: Knowledge
 
33. Data collected at the same, or approximately the same, point in time are _____ data.
 a. time series
 b. static
 c. cross-sectional