Agricultural Statistics And Economics Quiz 5 (30 MCQs)

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1. It is the number of time an observation or a particular value appears in a data set.
2. A random sample of 85 sixth-graders in a large city take a course designed to improve scores on a reading comprehension test. Based on this sample, a 90% confidence interval for the mean improvement in test scores for all sixth-graders in the city taking this course is found to be (12.6, 14.8). Which of the following are the sample mean and margin of error on which this interval is based?
3. Researchers studying acid rain measured the acidity of precipitation (response variable) in an isolated wilderness area in Colorado and the duration of rain in weeks (explanatory variable). The researchers reported that there was a strong negative linear association between "acidity" of precipitation and duration of rain in "weeks" . Determine which of the following is a possible measure of the relationship.
4. You have data on rainwater collected at 16 locations in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. One measurement is the acidity of the water, measured by pH on a scale of 0 to 14 (the pH of distilled water is 7.0). Which inference procedure would you use to estimate the average acidity of rainwater in the Adirondacks?
5. If the standard deviation of a data set is 4, what is the variance?
6. A slice of pizza from a certain restaurant has an average area of 40 square inches with a standard deviation of 5 square inches. Assuming the distribution of areas is approximately normal, what proportion of slices will be between 35 and 50 square inches
7. It has same criteria as interval scales but has an absolute zero and multiples are meaningful.
8. What does it mean when a test is statistically significant?
9. The increase of birth defects, and death toll near nuclear power plants.
10. A researcher plans to conduct a test of hypotheses at the $\alpha$ = 0.01 significance level. She designs her study to have a power of 0.90 at a particular alternative value of the parameter of interest. The probability that the researcher will commit a Type I error is
11. The point estimate for the difference of two proportions is:
12. At a particular college, 78% of all students are receiving some kind of financial aid.The school newspaper selects a random sample of 100 students and 72% of the respondents say they are receiving some sort of financial aid. Which of the following is true?
13. The symbol for the significance level is .....
14. A random sample of 150 students has a grade point average with a mean of 2.86. Assume the population standard deviation is 0.78. Construct the confidence interval for the population mean if c = 0.99.
15. Find the critical value zc necessary to form a 98% confidence interval.
16. The null hypothesis is represented by:
17. What is the rental rate for Agricultural Development Areas for growing rice?
18. Statistical enquiry means
19. For children between the ages of 18 months and 29 months, there is an approximately linearrelationship between height and age. The relationship can be represented by y-hat= 64.93 + 0.63x, where y represents height (in centimeters) and x represents age (in months).Joseph is 22.5 months old. What is his predicted height?
20. A sample of 30 women finds the mean height to be 62.3 in and the standard deviation to be 1.5 in. Find the margin of error of women's heights for a 95% confidence interval.
21. Which of the following is NOT part of the sampling design process?
22. The standard IQ test has a mean of 96 and a standard deviation of 14. We want to be 99% certain that we are within 4 IQ points of the true mean. Determine the required sample size.
23. Wilt and Bill, two basketball players, are having a free throw shooting contest. Wilt is known to make 75% of his free throws, and Bill is known to hit 85% of his free throws. Each of them takes 50 shots. Assuming that the shots are independent, what is the probability that Bill hits a higher percentage of his shots that Wilt?
24. What can you do to reduce the margin of error?
25. A researcher at a major hospital wishes to estimate the proportion of the adult population of the U.S. that has high blood pressure. How large a sample is needed in order to be 90% confident that the sample proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 5%?
26. Which z-value is used for a 95% confidence interval?
27. Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting every third person on her class list. Which type of sampling method is this?
28. Identify whether the information described is a parameter or statistic. 4. There are 547 students in the school. All these students took and passed the test with average score of 156/ 170.
29. Matthew is gathering data for his study. Matthew tells his research assistants to be sure to interview twenty 6th graders, twenty 7th graders, and twenty-five 8th graders. Which of the following methods of sampling is Matthew most likely using?
30. How can you reduce both Type I and Type II errors?