Agricultural Statistics And Economics Quiz 1 (30 MCQs)

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1. Which type of data is contained in the census of India?
2. An agricultural economist says that the correlation between corn prices and soybean prices is r = 0.7. This means that .....
3. Which of the following is not a non economic activity?
4. What are the qualities that a good questionnaire should have
5. A study on facial expression and anxiety was conducted to determine if anxious people exhibit more or fewer facial expressions compared to non-anxious people. The number of facial expressions exhibited in response to 25 emotional cues for 25 anxious subjects and 25 non-anxious subjects are collected. Will anxious people exhibit a different number of facial expressions compared to non-anxious people?
6. Identify whether the information described is a parameter or statistic. 4. The average temperature in the Philippines is at 27 degrees Celsius. The average amount of precipitation is at 32%, humidity is 91% and wind of 3km/h.(source:hypothetical data based on www.weather.com)
7. The amount added and subtracted to the statistic when creating a confidence interval.
8. What is the point estimator for the interval (-5, 13)?
9. All the human activities in which people are gainfully employed are called-
10. When conducting a significance test for the difference in proportions, why do we pool the data when finding standard error?
11. The NCAA requires colleges to report the graduation rates of their athletes. One Big Ten university reported that the graduation rates for a specific year were 21 of 28 females athletes and 24 of 46 male athletes. Is there evidence that a smaller proportion of male athletes than of female athletes graduate?
12. Composition, distribution, growth of human, population, birth, death, migration, rates, social economic, standing of population.
13. A scatter plot was created to show the relationshipbetween the number of staff members and studentsat various schools. The scatter plot's trend line has anequation of y = 0.1x + 18, where y is the total numberof staff members and x is the total number ofstudents.Use the equation to predict the number of students ina school with 120 staff members.
14. The mean life of a tire is 30, 000 km. The standard deviation is 2000 km. Then, 68% of all tires will have a life between ..... km and ..... km.
15. Which of the following is correct regarding Statistics?
16. Identify whether the information described is a parameter or statistic. 1. A study was conducted on selected medicine produce of a pharmaceutical company. It was found that the variability of the medicine manufactured in the laboratory is at 0.008.
17. Increasing the sample size ..... the confidence interval.
18. Jorge's score on Exam 1 in his statistics class was at the 64th percentile of the scores for all students. His score falls
19. Which of the following changes to a study would result in a narrower confidence interval?
20. Which of the following is NOT a type of probability sample?
21. Which scenario do you think would yield data that when graphed would be most likely left skewed?
22. A politician wants to know what percentage of the voters support her position on the issue of forced busing for integration. What size voter sample should be obtained to determine with 90% confidence the support level to within 4%?
23. A survey of 280 homeless persons showed that 63 were veterans. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of homeless persons who are veterans.
24. Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, interpreting, and analyzing data.
25. A large company surveys 100 employees by taking random samples of 10 managers and 90 non-managerial employees.What type of sample is this?
26. The mean temperature in Glens Falls for the month of February is 23 degrees with a standard deviation of 4.2 degrees. What is the z-score for a temperature of 17 degrees?
27. What is the least expensive and least time-consuming of all sampling techniques?
28. If I change the units on each one of my original data points from yards to meters, then my correlation will change as well.
29. Data originally collected in the process of investigation are known as
30. Which District has the lowest total rice crop land areas in 2021?