Business Statistics - using data decisions
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Question 1
What scale of measurement would you use when collecting data to represent the average monthly temperature for the city of Fort Wayne?
Answer
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Question 5
An employee appraisal form lists performance ratings as "exceeds expectations", "meets expectations", and "below expectations." What type of measurement scale describes this type of data?
Answer
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Question 6
An analysis of the number of phone calls per day for last month is shown in the following frequency table.
Calls per day Number of Days
0 - 2 12
3 - 5 8
6 - 8 5
9 - 11 3
12 or more 2
What is the relative frequency for the category 0 - 2?
Answer
0.12
0.25
0.40
0.67
Question 7
The phone call data is repeated for this question.
Calls per day Number of days
0 - 2 12
3 - 5 8
6 - 8 5
9 - 11 3
12 or more 2
What percent of the data falls between 2 and 9 calls per day?
Answer
0.27
0.43
0.53
0.93
Question 10
The following set {male, female} describes gender data from a survey. Which best describes the data set?
Answer
Mutually exclusive
Collectively exhaustive
Both mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive
Neither mutually exclusive nor collectively exhaustive
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Business statistics for using data decisions are examined. What scale you used when collecting data to represent the average monthly temperature is determined.
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1. Interval
An interval level of measurement classifies observations into categories that are not only mutually exclusive and exhaustive, and have some explicit relationship among ...
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