Study Guide - Chapters 1 & 2

Math 113

1. Provide the term best defined. 10 parts.
2. Identify the level of measurement as nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio. 4 parts.
3. Identify the type of sampling used as random, systematic, cluster, stratified, or convenience. 5 parts.
4. Multiple choice: Know the characteristics of the sample mean.
5. Multiple choice: Know the characteristics of the sample variance.
6. Multiple choice: Know examples of abuses of statistics.
7. Given the mean, median, range, variance, and standard deviation, find the new values after a value is added to and multiplied by the data. 3 parts.
8. Given data, create a frequency table. Find the mean and standard deviation of the grouped data. Four parts.
9. Given data, find the mean*, median, mode, midrange, standard deviation*, variance, a percentile, and the range. 8 parts. * means the problem should be worked on your calculator.

This exam is worth 75 points. There is a take home exam to be done on statdisk worth 25 points.