STATISTICS ─CHAPTER 7 TEST Name:

1. A population contains eight members. The total number of samples of size 3 that can be drawn
(without replacement) from this population is:
a. 40,320 b. 56 c. 6 d. 210

2. The sampling error is defined as:

a. an error that occurs during collection, recording, and tabulation of data
b. the difference between the value of a sample statistic and the value of the corresponding
population parameter
c. an error that occurs when a sample of less than 30 elements is drawn
d. an error that occurs when a sample of more than 30 elements is drawn

3. An error that occurs because of chance is called the _________ error.

a. nonsampling b. sampling c. mean d. probability

4. An error that occurs because of human mistakes is called the _________ error.
a. nonsampling b. sampling c. mean d. probability

5. The mean age of all students at a university is 24 years. The mean age of a random sample of
100 students selected from this university is found to be 23.6 years. The difference 23.6
– 24 =.4 is called the _________ error.
a. nonsampling b. sampling c. mean d. probability

6. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is:

a. always equal to the sample mean c. always equal to the population mean
b. sometimes equal to the population mean d. always equal to the sampling procedure

7. If n/N is less than or equal to .05, the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the
sample mean is equal to the population standard deviation:
a. divided by the square of the sample size c. divided by the square root of the sample size
b. divided by the sample size d. multiplied by the sample size

8. As the sample size increases, the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample
mean:
a. increases b. decreases c. remains the same d. none of these

9. For a continuous random variable x, the population mean and the population standard deviation
are 80 and 15 respectively. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean for a
sample of 25 elements taken from this population is:
a. 16 b. 3 c. 80 d. 15

10. For a continuous random variable x, the population mean and the population standard
deviation are 100 and 20 respectively. Assuming n/N is less than or equal to .05, the standard
deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean for a sample of 16 elements taken
from this population is:
a. 20 b. 25 c. 4 d. 5

11. If the population from which samples are drawn is normally distributed, then the sampling
distribution of the sample mean is:
a. not normally distributed c. normally distributed if n is 30 or larger
b. always normally distributed d. normally distributed if n is less than 30
12. If the population from which samples are drawn is not normally distributed, then the sampling
distribution of the sample mean is:
a. never normally distributed c. approximately normally distributed if n is 30
or larger
b. always normally distributed d. approximately normally distributed if n is less
than 30

13. To apply the central limit theorem to the sampling distribution of the sample mean, the sample
is considered to be large if n is:
a. greater than 50 b. 50 or larger c. larger than 30 d. 30 or larger

14. A population has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 27. Assuming that n/N is less than
or equal to .05, the probability that the sample mean of a sample of 81 elements selected from
this population will be between 91 and 97 is:
a. .4987 b. .3413 c. .1574 d. .8400

15. A population has a normal distribution with a mean of 48 and a standard deviation of 9.
Assuming that n/N is less than or equal to .05, the probability that the sample mean for a
sample of 25 elements selected from this population will be more than 51.15 is:
a. .4599 b. .9599 c. .0401 d. .7814

16. The time spent commuting from home to work for all employees of a very large company has
a normal distribution with a mean of 42 minutes and a standard deviation of 12 minutes. The
mean time spent commuting from home to work of the sampling distribution of the sample
mean for a sample of 16 employees of this company is:
a. 42 b. 10.5 c. 2.625 d. 3

17. The time spent commuting from home to work for all employees of a very large company has
a normal distribution with a mean of 42 minutes and a standard deviation of 12 minutes. The
probability that the mean time spent commuting from home to work by a sample of 16
employees of this company will be between 43.26 and 49.35 minutes is:
a. .3301 b. .6557 c. .4929 d. .9929

18. The number of elements in a sample with a specific characteristic divided by the total number
of elements in the sample is called:
a. the sample mean c. the sample distribution
b. the sample proportion d. the sampling distribution

19. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion is equal to:
a. the population mean c. the population proportion
b. the population mean divided by n d. the population proportion divided by n

20. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion is equal to:
a. the population standard deviation divided by the square root of n
b. the population standard deviation divided by n
c. the square root of pq/n
d. pq/n

21. In the case of proportion, the sample size is large if:

a. n is greater than or equal to 30 c. n is less than 30
b. np and nq are both less than 5 d. np and nq are both greater than 5

22. A company that provides financial services prides itself on the percentage of college
graduates it employs. It has 500 employees and 200 of them are college graduates. The
proportion of all employees who are college graduates is:
a. .60 b. .50 c. .20 d. .40

23. Forty percent of all students at a large university live on campus. Suppose a sample of 100
students is selected from this university and the sample proportion is defined as the
proportion of students in this sample who live on campus. The mean of the sampling
distribution of this sample proportion is:
a. .60 b. .40 c. 40 d. 0.50

24. Forty percent of all students at a large university live on campus. Suppose a sample of 100
students is selected from this university and the sample proportion is defined as the
proportion of students in this sample who live on campus. The standard deviation of the
sampling distribution of this sample proportion is:
a. .049 b. .068 c. .273 d. .105

25. Suppose the proportion of elements of a population that possess a certain characteristic is .60.
Assuming that n/N is less than or equal to .05, the probability that the sample proportion for a
sample of 100 elements drawn from this population is between .62 and .67 is approximately:
a. .4236 b. .1591 c. .2645 d. .5827

26. Twenty percent of all persons prefer strawberry to chocolate ice cream. Suppose a sample of
400 people is selected from the population. The variance of the sampling distribution of this
sample proportion is:
a. .0004 b. .0200 c. .2073 d. .0080

27. Twenty percent of all persons prefer strawberry to chocolate ice cream. The probability that
less than 18% of persons in a sample of 1000 will choose strawberry over chocolate ice
cream is approximately:
a. .2454 b. .6300 c. .0120 d. .2643

28. Ten percent of all persons are allergic to penicillin. The probability that less than 8% of
persons in a sample of 1000 will be allergic to penicillin is approximately:
a. .9868 b. .4868 c. .0237 d. .0132

29. Ten percent of all persons are allergic to penicillin. The probability that more than 8% of
persons in a sample of 1000 will be allergic to penicillin is approximately:
a. .9868 b. .5132 c. .0237 d. .0132

30. Twenty percent of all adult males did not visit their physicians’ offices last year. The
probability that less than 23% of adult males in a sample of 800 did not visit their physicians'
offices last year is approximately:
a. .0162 b. .4838 c. .2389 d. .9838
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