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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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Author:Amos Gilat

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1)What happens to the mean if we add 5 to each number in a data set?Group of answer choices

Can't tell without knowing the actual numbers.

The mean will stay the same

The mean will increase with 5

In a large city school system with 20 elementary schools, the school board is considering the adoption of a new policy that would require elementary students to pass a test in order to be promoted to the next grade. The PTA wants to find out whether parents agree with this plan. Listed below are some of the ideas proposed for gathering data. What kind of sampling method is involved in each?

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Randomly select one of the elementary school and contact every parent by phone.

Randomly select 20 parents from each school and send them the survey.

Go through the districts enrollment records, selecting every 40th parent. PTA volunteers will go to those homes to interview the people chosen.

Use a random number generator to choose 200 students from the districts enrollment records.

3) For a right-skewed histogram, which of the following statement is correct?

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Median < Mean

Mean < Median

Mean = Median

4) Which of the following measured of spread is not effected by outliers.

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Standard deviation

Range

IQR

5) If the mean and median for a data set are all the same, the data's distribution is

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skewed right

symmetric

skewed left

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