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Probability and Statistics EBook Practice Problems
The problems provided below may be useful for practicing the concepts, methods and analysis protocols, and for self-evaluation of learning of the materials presented in the EBook.
Correlation
1. A positive correlation between two variables X and Y means that if X increases, this will cause the value of Y to increase.
A. This is always true.
B. This is sometimes true.
C. This is never true.
2. The correlation between high school algebra and geometry scores was found to be + 0.8. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Most of the students who have above average scores in algebra also have above average scores in geometry.
B. Most people who have above average scores in algebra will have below average scores in geometry
C. If we increase a student's score in algebra (ie. with extra tutoring in algebra), then the student's geometry scores will always increase accordingly.
D. Most students who have below average scores in algebra also have below average scores in geometry.
Distributions
Probability
1. A professor who teaches 500 students in an introductory psychology course reports that 250 of the students have taken at least one introductory statistics course, and the other 250 have not taken any statistics courses. 200 of the students were freshmen, and the other 300 students were not freshmen. Exactly 50 of the students were freshmen who had taken at least one introductory statistics course.
If you select one of these psychology students at random, what is the probability that the student is not a freshman and has never taken a statistics course?
A. 30%
B. 40%
C. 50%
D. 60%
E. 20%
2. Ming’s Seafood Shop stocks live lobsters. Ming pays $6.00 for each lobster and sells each one for $12.00. The demand X for these lobsters in a given day has the following probability mass function.
| X | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| P(x) | 0.05 | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.1 |
Choose one answer.
A. 13.5
B. 3.1
C. 2.65
D. 5.2
Confidence Intervals
Statistical Tests
1. Suppose you were hired to conduct a study to find out which of two brands of soda college students think taste better. In your study, students are given a blind taste test. They rate one brand and then rated the other, in random order. The ratings are given on a scale of 1 (awful) to 5 (delicious). Which type of test would be the best to compare these ratings?
A. One-Sample t
B. Chi-Square
C. Paired Difference t
D. Two-Sample t
Summarizing Data
1. Suppose that in a certain country, the average yearly income for 75% of the population is below average, what would you use as the measure of center and spread?
A. Mean and Interquartile Range
B. Mean and Standard Deviation
C. Median and Interquartile Range
D. Median and Standard Deviation
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