when you submit. 1) Which of the following is not true of statistics? A) Statist

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when you submit. 1) Which of the following is not true of statistics? A) Statistics involves collecting and summarizing data. B) Statistics can be used to organize and analyze information. Statistics is used to draw conclusions using data DO Statistics is used to answer questions with 100% certainty. Provide an appropriate response. 2) A manufacturer of cellular phones has decided that an assembly line is operating satisfactorily if 2) less than 0.03% of the phones produced per day are defective. To check the quality of a day's production, the company decides to randomly sample 50 phones from a day's production to test for defects. Define the population of interest to the manufacturer. A) all the phones produced during the day in question B) the 0.03% of the phones that are defective C the 50 phones sampled and tested D) the 50 responses: defective or not defective 3) Parking at a large university has become a very big problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average parking time (e.g. the time it takes a student to find a parking spot) of its students. An administrator inconspicuously followed 130 students and carefully recorded their parking times. Identify the sample of interest to the university administration. A) parking times of the 130 students B) location of the parking spot C) parking time of a student D) type of car (import or domestic) 4) The legal profession conducted a study to determine the percentage of cardiologists who had been sued for malpractice in the last ten years. The sample was randomly chosen fromanational directory of doctors. Identify the individuals in the study A) each cardiologist selected from the directory B) the responses: have been sued/have not been sued for malpractice in the last ten years all cardiologists in the directory D) the doctor's area of expertise (i.e, cardiology, pediatrics, etc.) 5) Which branch of statistics deals with the organization and summarization of collected information? A) Survey design. B) Computational statistics C) Descriptive statistics D) Inferential statistics Determine whether the underlined value is a parameter or a statistic. 6) In a survey conducted in the town of Atherton, 22% of adult respondents reported that they had been involved in at least one car accident in the past ten years B) parameter A) statistic Mark retired from competitive athletics last year. In his career as a sprinter he had competed in the 70 100-meters event a total of 328 times. His average time for these 328 races was 10.27 seconds. A) statistic B) parameter 8) 26.2% of the mayors of cities in a certain state are from minority groups. A) parameter B) statistic

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