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Review for Unit 3 End of Module Exam

1) At a city public library, the chief librarian was interested in finding out if the users of the public library would like
more children’s activities to be scheduled. Based on her conversations with parents, she believed that many library
users put a high priority on children’s activities. She decided to do a survey to estimate the proportion of adult
library users who would like the number of children’s activities to be increased. During month of July, the librarian
asked the first twenty adults entering the library each morning to answer the following question:

a) Explain why might this sampling method be biased in producing an estimate of the proportion of all adult
library users who would like more children’s activities to be scheduled.

b) Because of the large number of adults who utilizes the library, another method the chief librarian is
considering to take a simple random sample of 100 adult library users from a list of 10,000 library card
holders. Describe how to implement such a sampling method.
 c) Because the public libraries in this city contains multiple locations, the chief librarian is considering taking a
stratified random sample of 100 adult library uses. This city library has five locations and both male and
female library users utilizes all five locations. Under what circumstance(s) would stratification by library
location provide a more precise estimate of the proportion of all adult library users who would like more
children’s activities to be scheduled than stratification by gender?

2) Define a census:

3) Select all that apply. When we take a census, we attempt to collect data from
(A) a simple random sample.
(B) every individual chosen in a simple random sample.
(C) every individual in the population.
(D) a voluntary response sample.
(E) a convenience sample.

4) You want to take a simple random sample (SRS) of 50 of the 816 students who live in a dormitory on campus. You
label the students 001 through 816 in alphabetical order. In the table of random digits, you read the entries

95592 94007 69769 33547 72450 16632 81194 14873

Which numbers corresponds to the first five students in the your sample?

5) A student organization wants to assess the attitudes of students toward a proposed change in the hours the library
is open. They randomly select 50 freshmen, 50 sophomores, 50 juniors, and 50 seniors to survey. This situation is
described as
(A) a stratified random sample
(B)a simple random sample
(C)a cluster sample
(D) a systematic random sample
(E) an observational study
6) A student organization wants to assess the attitudes of students toward a proposed change in the hours the library
is open. Of the four classification status, they randomly select all the freshmen and all the seniors to survey. This
situation is described as
(A) a stratified random sample
(B)a simple random sample
(C)a cluster sample
(D) a systematic random sample
(E) an observational study

7) The five-number summary for scores on a statistics exam is 35, 68, 77, 83, 97. In all, 196 students took the test.
About how many had scores between 77 and 83?
(A) 6
(B)39
(C)49
(D) 98
(E) It cannot be determined from the information given.

8) The girls and boys in one of the AP English classes at a high school are having a contest. They want to see which
group can read the most number of books. Mrs. Stubbard, their English teacher, says that the class will tally the
number of books each group has read, and the highest mode will be the winner. The following data was collected
for the first semester of AP English:

1l2 = 12 books read

a) Write a few sentences comparing the distributions of books read by the students at the high school.
 b) Is it reasonable to generalize the results of this study to all students at all AP English Students?

c) Is it reasonable to generalize the results of this study to all students at all high schools?

Use the following graph to answer questions 9 – 12

The scores of male (M) and female (F) students on a statistics exam are
displayed in the following boxplots. The pluses indicate the location of the
means.

9) Which of the following is correct?

(A) The mean grade of the females is about 72.
(B)About 75% of the males score above 82.
(C)The median of the male students is about 66.
(D) The scores of the males have a higher variability than the scores of the females.
(E) About 25% of the females scored above 72.

10) Based on the boxplots, which of the following is a correct conclusion

(A) The interquartile ranges are the same for both the males and the females.
(B)The range for females is greater than the range for the males.
(C)There are more exam scores that are greater 45 for males than there are for the females.
(D) There are more exam scores that are greater 90 for females than there are for the males.
(E) There are more exam scores that are less 55 for females than there are for the males

11) For the females, 50% of the data is between which two values? Explain.

12) For the males, 50% of the data is between which two values? Explain.
13) A group of 420 college students are enrolled in a blind taste test. The school’s food service wants to see if they can
improve the taste of their lattes. They decide to try two types of coffee beans (Arabica and Robusta). The
treatment, experimental unit, and response are respectively
(A) taste of the lattes, college students, Arabica and Robusta coffee beans
(B)Arabica and Robusta coffee beans, college students, taste of the lattes
(C)college students, Arabica and Robusta coffee beans, taste of the lattes,
(D) Arabica and Robusta coffee beans, taste of the lattes, college students

14) Which boxplot was made from the same data as this histogram?

15) Which of the following residual plots provides the strongest evidence that the regression line is an appropriate
model for the data? Explain.
16) Which of the following residual plots provides the strongest evidence that the regression line is an appropriate
model for the data? Explain

17) What are the three requirements for a well-designed experiment?

18) What is the most important reason(s) why we randomize? Why is randomization necessary?

19) What are the two reasons that control groups are used for in experiments?

20) A human resources director of a large company is interested in how often employees use their computers during
breaks. She watches a selected group of employees at their desks during the break times. From this information
you can conclude…

21) The errors in predicting hurricane tracks were given in nautical miles. An ordinary mile is 0.86898 nautical miles.
Most would prefer to know the prediction errors in miles rather than nautical miles. Explain why converting the
errors to miles would not change the correlation.
22) Which histogram has the largest standard deviation? Explain

23) A fire station A in a rural county reports that its response time to fires is approximately normally distributed
with a mean of 20 minutes and a standard deviation of 2.3 minutes. A fire station B in a urban county reports
that its response time to fires is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 15 minutes and a
standard deviation of 7.2 minute. If Fire Station A that has a response time of 30 minutes, what response
time would Fire Station B need to have the same z-score as fire station A?
24) A new type of soy-based baby formula has been developed to help babies who have trouble gaining weight in their
first six months of life. The parents of 150 babies have volunteered their children to participate in this study. All of
the babies are between 8 and 9 weeks of age (a time when they should be growing very rapidly) and have been
identified by their doctors as gaining weight more slowly than normal. The babies will be weighed before the study
begins. Half of them will be given the new formula and the other half will be given the type of formula that is
currently recommended for slowly growing babies. After three months, all the babies will be weighed again.
a) Explain how to carry out a completely randomized experiment for the study?

b) Is this study a single-blinded study? Explain.

c) Is a placebo necessary for this study?

d) Describe an experimental design that would improve the design in (a) by incorporting blocking.