UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
ASSIGNMENT 3
STA 114 (GENERAL STATISTICS I)
(1) ------- is an example of a discrete variable
(A) weight (B) colour (C) family size (D) gender
The stem-and-leaf plot below shows the quiz scores of students.
Stem Leaf
6 6
7 0, 5, 7, 8
8 1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 6, 8, 8, 9
9 0, 2, 9
10 0
Key: 9|2 = 9.2 points
(2) Use the information above to find the number of students who scored less than 9 points.
(A) 16 (B) 20 (C)14 (D) 12
(3) Use the information above to find the number of students who scored a minimum of 9 points
(A) 6 (B) 8 (B) 2 (D) 4
(4) …… is not one of the qualities of a good dataset
(A) Relevance (B) Repeatability (C) Objectivity (D) Integrity
(5) Statistical abstract is an example of data from ….. sources
(A) official (B) published (C) unofficial (D) unpublished
(6) The domain of Statistics covers data collection, ………, ………., analysis and report writing
(A) description, management (B) management, processing (C) processing,
description (D) usage, management
(7) …… should be indicated at the bottom of a table
(A) Title (B) Source (C) Interpretation (D) Data
(8) Class mark is the ….. of a class interval
(A) range (B) endpoint (C) midpoint (D) boundary
(9) Which of the following is a database of first-hand information?
(A) Primary data (B) Secondary data (C) Both A and B are correct
(D) Both A and B are incorrect
(10) Stem and Leaf are useful tools in…
(A) Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) (B) Contour plots (C) Basic programming
(D) Random samples.
(11) The special bar chart that have no gap between two bar unless where frequency is zero is known
as
(A) Simple bar chart (B) Pie chart (C) Multiple bar chart (D) Histogram
(12) Compute the cumulative frequency of the distribution
Score Frequency
3 3
5 2
6 1
8 3
9 2
(A) 11 (B) 10 (C) 13 (D) 9
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(13) If an observation in the data set is negative or zero, then its harmonic mean is:
(A) Positive (B) Negative (C) Zero (D) Indeterminate
(14) A frequency curve that is flat-topped than the normal curve is referred to as:
(A) Kurtosis (B) Platykurtic (C) Mesokurtic (D) Moments
(15) A questionnaire concerning satisfaction with the quality of internet service on campus was administered to a
random selection of 50 academic staff in U.I. This group of staff in this survey is an example of
(A) statistic (B) parameter (C) population (D) sample
(16) Examine the following stem-and-leaf diagram
1|0 3
2|2 2 4
3|1 2 3 3 3 3 3
4|1 1 2 2 2 2 5 6
5|3 3 5 6
6|2 4
7|3
What is the mode of the distribution?
(A) 2 (B) 42 (C) 33 (D) 3
(17) Obtain the median of the distribution in the stem & leaf above.
(A) 2 (B) 41 (C) 3 (D) 42
(18) Obtain the mean of the distribution in the stem & leaf above.
(A) 39.852 (B) 39.855 (C) 39.850 (D) 39.851
(19) One of the following is not a Measurement Scale.
(A) Nominal (B) Interval (C) Categorical (D) Ratio
(20) For any set of observations, HM, GM, AM, ¿M)
(A) True (B) False
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
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