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Find the Z-score.
Mean = 22
Standard Deviation: 3.1
x = 29
2.26
16.45
-2.26
1.26
Find the mean.
Z-score = -1.4
Standard Deviation: 7
x = 20
29.8
10.2
-21
35
Is r = -0.87 strong, moderate, or weak?
strong
moderate
weak
A large company wants to conduct a survey to determine the proportion of its male employees who practice yoga on a daily basis. Two of its regional offices are chosen at random and all of the male employees at each office are surveyed. The plan is an example of which type of sampling?
Cluster
Convenience
Simple random
Stratified random
Systematic
Joe Mama wants to do an observational study comparing height and weight. He also does a study comparing weight and calories consumed daily. He concludes that the more calories you consume, the more you weigh. And people who weigh more are generally taller. Therefore, if you eat more, you will get taller. Why is this incorrect?
Causation from one observational study cannot be extrapolated and applied to another
Correlation does not indicate causation
He is ignoring the lurking variable of age
He did not have a control group
The Gallup Poll asked a random sample of 1785 adults whether they attended church during the past week. Let p-hat be the proportion of people in the sample who attended church. A newspaper report claims that 40% of all U.S. adults went to church last week. Suppose this claim is true.
What is the mean of the sampling distribution of p-hat?
0.40
0.44
0.56
0.60
A random sample of 49 medical doctors in LA showed that they worked an average of 53.1 hours/week with a standard deviation of 7.2 hours/week. If the California average is 60 hours/week, does this give evidence that the LA doctors work significantly less than the rest of California? What test should be used?
One-Sample T Test for a Mean
One-Sample Z Test for a Mean
One-Sample T Test for a Proportion
One-Sample Z Test for a Proportion
USA Today reported that in 1992, 39% of all elementary school children claimed that when they grow up they want to do something to help other people. However, in 1995, 128 of a random sample of 317 of these same children claimed that when they grow up they want to do something to help other people. Does this information indicate that there has been an attitude change either way? What test should be used?
One-Sample Z Test for a Proportion
Two-Sample Z Test for the Difference in Proportions
One-Sample T Test for a Mean
Two-Sample T Test for the Difference in Means
The manager of a sporting goods store offered a bonus commission to his salespeople when they sold moregoods. A new manager dropped the bonus system. For a random sample of six sales people, the weeklysales (in thousands of dollars) are shown in the following table with and without the bonus system
Salesperson 1 2 3 4 5 6
with bonus 2.9 3.0 5.8 4.4 5.3 5.6
w/o bonus 2.8 2.5 5.9 3.5 4.6 4.6
difference 0.1 0.5 -0.1 0.9 0.7 1.0
What test should be used?
Matched-Pairs T Test for a Mean
One-Sample T Test for a Mean
Two-Sample T Test for the Difference in Means
Dannon is supposed to put 29.6 grams of fruit in their fruit-flavored yogurt. To see if enough fruit is being placed in cups of fruit-flavored yogurt, a quality inspector measured the amount in 27 containers.She found an average of 28.9 grams of fruit and standard deviation of 2.8 grams. Does this show that there is probably enough yogurt in the cups? What test should be used?
One-Sample T Test for a Mean
One-Sample Z Test for a Proportion
Matched-Pairs T Test for a Mean
Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Test
Which episode of Star Wars is the best? (Choices are 1 through 9).