Exam 1: Defining and Collecting Data

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -True or False: Student grades (A to F)are an example of continuous numerical data.

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Table 1-1,the possible responses to the question "How many Blu-ray players made by other manufacturers have you used?" are values from a

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Table 1-1,the possible responses to the question "Out of a 100 point score with 100 being the highest and 0 being the lowest,what is your satisfaction level with the Blu-ray player that you purchased?" result in

Which of the following can be reduced by proper interviewer training?

A personal computer user survey was conducted.Primary word processing package used is an example of a ________ variable.

To gather information on the preferences of instructors at universities on topics for a business statistics textbook that it will publish,a publishing company invited 10 faculty members who have adopted one of the textbooks that it has published.This is an example of a

True or False: Sampling error can be completely eliminated by taking larger sample sizes.

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -True or False: The amount of coffee consumed by an individual in a day is an example of a discrete numerical variable.

To monitor campus security,the campus police office is taking a survey of the number of students in a parking lot each 30 minutes of a 24-hour period with the goal of determining when patrols of the lot would serve the most students.If X is the number of students in the lot each period of time,then X is an example of

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Table 1-1,the possible responses to the question "Out of a 100 point score with 100 being the highest and 0 being the lowest,what is your satisfaction level on the videocassette recorder that you purchased?" are values from a

Researchers are concerned that the weight of the average American school child is increasing implying,among other things,that children's clothing should be manufactured and marketed in larger sizes.If X is the weight of school children sampled in a nationwide study,then X is an example of

A population frame for a survey contains a listing of 72,345 names.Using a table of random numbers,how many digits will the code numbers for each member of your population contain?

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Table 1-1,the possible responses to the question "How much time do you use the Blu-ray player every week on the average?" are values from a

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Table 1-1,the possible responses to the question "How much time do you use the Blu-ray player every week on the average?" result in

TABLE 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -True or False: The answer to the question "What is your favorite color?" is an example of an ordinal scaled variable.

TABLE 1-2 A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the United States a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S.economy. -Referring to Table 1-2,the possible responses to the question "In which year do you think the last recession in the United States started?" are values from a

The Human Resources Director of a large corporation wishes to develop an employee benefits package and decides to select 500 employees from a list of all (N = 40,000)workers in order to study their preferences for the various components of a potential package.All the employees in the corporation constitute the ________.

The Dean of Students conducted a survey on campus.Number of clubs,groups,teams,and organizations affiliated with on campus is an example of a ________ numerical variable.

The classification of student major (accounting,economics,management,marketing,other)is an example of

True or False: There can be only one sample selected from a population.