1.2 reading quiz

A company has 3500 employees.  120 of those employees are selected, and the average age of those employees is found to be 37 years.

The number 3500 is a ______________ because it describes the entire ___________ of interest.

• prarmeter/population

• statistic/sample

• parameter/sample

• statistic/population

• population/sample

A company has 3500 employees.  120 of those employees are selected, and the average age of those employees is found to be 37 years.

The number 120 is a _______________ because it describes a ___________ of the whole group.

• prarmeter/population

• statistic/sample

• parameter/sample

• statistic/population

• population/sample

A company has 3500 employees.  120 of those employees are selected, and the average age of those employees is found to be 37 years.

The number 37 is a _______________ because it describes the average age of the ___________.

• prarmeter/population

• statistic/sample

• parameter/sample

• statistic/population

• population/sample

A statistics professor counts the number of students in attendance at each of her classes

This is an example of __________ data.

Researchers capture pythons and measure their lengths.

This is an example of __________ data.

• Discrete/Continuous

• Continuous/Discrete

• Discrete/Discrete

• Continuous/Continuous

Eye colors, like "blue", "brown", and "green" are of the ___________ level of measurement.

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

• Liminal

Course grades of “A”, “B”, “C”, “D”, “F” are of the __________________ level of measurement.

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

• Liminal

Birth years are of the ________________ level of measurement.

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

• Liminal

Student heights are of the ___________ level of measurement.

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

• Liminal