In one town, the number of pounds of leafy greens consumed per person per year has a mean of 10 pounds and a standard deviation of 2.6 pounds. Tyler consumed 24 pounds of leafy greens last year. How many standard deviations from the mean is that?   a. 5.38 standard deviations below the mean   b. 2.33 standard deviations above the mean   c. 2.33 standard deviations below the mean   d. 5.38 standard deviations above the mean

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  1. In one town, the number of pounds of leafy greens consumed per person per year has a mean of 10 pounds and a standard deviation of 2.6 pounds. Tyler consumed 24 pounds of leafy greens last year. How many standard deviations from the mean is that?

      a.

    5.38 standard deviations below the mean

      b.

    2.33 standard deviations above the mean

      c.

    2.33 standard deviations below the mean

      d.

    5.38 standard deviations above the mean

2. Sue is interested in how many hours U.S. Senators sleep each night. She sends a survey to which all senators respond. Sues’ resulting standard deviation would be denoted as:

  a.

s because she has obtained a population

  b.

s because she has obtained a sample

  c.

s2 because she has obtained a population

  d.

σ because she has obtained a population

  e.

σ because she has obtained a sample

  f.

s2 because she has obtained a sample

3.

  1. Determine which of the four levels of measurement is most appropriate for the following variable: Salaries of non-profit executive directors.

      a.

    Interval

      b.

    Ordinal

      c.

    Nominal

      d.

    Ratio

3.

  1. The heights of a group of professional basketball players are summarized in the distribution below. Find the mean height and round your answer to one decimal place.

    Height (in.) Frequency

    70                1

    72                6

    74              10

    76              12

    78               8

    80               6

    82              1

      a.

    44 inches

      b.

    75.9 inches

      c.

    72.5 inches

      d.

    3,340 inches

      e.

    None of these

3.

  1. Listed below are the amounts of time (in months) that the employees of a restaurant have been working at the restaurant. Find, on average, how the length of employment differs from the mean.

    1   4   7 8   12   15 19   43 66   87   99   127   148   167

      a.

    None of these

      b.

    57.36 months

      c.

    31 months

      d.

    166 months

      e.

    58.37 months

4. This question can have multiple answers

  1. The hallmarks of an experiment are:

      a.

    Random assignment to groups and pre-test measurements

      b.

    Double-blind procedures and participant consent

      c.

    An independent variable and a dependent variable

      d.

    Random assignment to groups and the manipulation of some variable

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