Elementary statistics 1.1 and 1.2

Heights of men entering the US Marine Corps are an example of which type of data

Continuous

Heights of trees are an example of which type of data

Continuous

78 percent of all students at the local university voted in the last election

Descriptive statistic

The number of languages that various people speak fluently are an example of what data

Discrete

A recent poll of 1489 corporate executives show that the average price of a corporate executives car is $37,700

Inferential statistic

Colors of jelly beans in a jar are example of which type of data

Neither

The number of times the students on your for order a pizza in a week

Population

The average price of a car at the new car dealership in town is $34,800

Population parameter

The final exam scores of four out of the 26 students in your math class. What is the population? What is the sample?

Population: All students in your math class Sample: 4 out of the 26 students in your math class

A geneticist is studying the Relationship between I color and hair color. She is collecting data using a questionnaire. The choices for hair color on the questionnaire are black, blonde, brown, and red

Qualitative, neither, and nominal

You toss a coin and record "head" as one in "tail" at two

Qualitative, neither, nominal

It companies international marketing group ask the following questions to residence of 50 countries. What has been your experience with American products? Below average, average, above average, good to excellent

Qualitative, neither, ordinal

Amounts of yearly rainfall in Miami over the last five years are in example of which type of data?

Quantitative

Boiling point in degrees Celsius for various substances are an example of which type of data

Quantitative

The lifetimes of 100 five volt batteries is recorded

Quantitative, continuous, and ratio

The IQ scores of students at a local college

Quantitative, discrete, and interval

The prices of 50 randomly selected cars

Quantitative, discrete, and ratio

The number of times 11 out of 21 students on your floor order Chinese in a week

Sample

A survey of 829 people revealed that 55 percent of the US population have a college degree

Sample statistic

The number of hours a group of seven children and miss miss kindergarten class watch television in a day. What is the sample?

The 7 children selected in mrs smith's kindergarten class