Week 3 Quiz

RES341 - Quiz 2 Name Sarah Good

2 points each

1. Which of the following is an example of qualitative data?

a. the weights of all the students in your classroom

b. the amount of water people use when taking a shower

c. the AP ranks of 25 college football teams

d. the number of people in your school who voted in the last election

2. Consider the following two columns that describe different types of data:

A. Nominal

1. Qualitative B. Discrete

2. Quantitative C. Ordinal

D. Continuous

The correctly paired groupings of the two columns is

a. 1–AB 2–CD

b. 1–AD 2–BC

c. 1–AC 2–BD

d. 1–BC 2–AD

3. Marinita Lee has decided to count the number of fouls the women’s basketball team and its opponents commit during the next ten games. Marinita is collecting ___________ data.

a. discrete

b. ordinal

c. nominal

d. continuous

Use the following information to answer questions 4-7.

State College plans to launch a new physical fitness program. All 3,227 incoming freshmen who are able will be required to run 1,500 meters at the start of the term. The elapsed times will be recorded by the track coaching staff and published in the school newspaper. The times will be ranked from the fastest to the slowest, and the students’ names and ID numbers will appear next to the times. At the end of the term, all participants will again run the same event, and the coaching staff will count the students whose elapsed time decreased. Students will receive one bonus point in their physical education class for every second of improvement and another for every second their combined times are faster than the class average.

4. The recorded elapsed times for students running the 1,500 meters are an example of _________ data.

a. discrete

b. ordinal

c. nominal

d. continuous

5. The ranks of the...