Creating Graphs in Statistics MCQs

Creating Graphs in Statistics MCQs

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1: A distribution of test scores in your class that showed a very high number of students scored high, but a few students scored fairly low, would be ______.

A.   Positively skewed

B.   Negatively skewed

C.   Not skewed

D.   Normally distributed

2: A line graph of the frequencies of individual scores is called a ______.

A.   Histogram

B.   Frequency distribution

C.   Frequency polygon

D.   Bar graph

3: If you have a distribution of 50 scores and you want 5 intervals, what should be the size of the class interval?

A.   50

B.   25

C.   10

D.   5

4: If I collected data on the frequency of various weights for people in a weight loss program, what type of graph should I use to organize the data?

A.   Histogram

B.   Bar graph

C.   Frequency polygon

D.   Frequency distribution

5: A ______ represents organizing data using a table, and a ______ represents organizing data using a figure.

A.   Histogram; bar graph

B.   Frequency polygon; bar graph

C.   Frequency distribution; histogram

D.   Frequency polygon; frequency distribution

6: Another word for “lopsidedness” of a distribution is:

A.   Kurtosis

B.   Skewness

C.   Platykurtic

D.   Leptokurtic

7: Which of the following can be used to measure the shape of a distribution?

A.   Mean

B.   Mode

C.   Kurtosis

D.   Median

8: What do you need to calculate first before calculating skewness?

A.   Mean and median

B.   Median and mode

C.   Mode and mean

D.   Mode and variance

9: A table in which all of the scores are listed along with the frequency with which each occurs is a ______.

A.   Bar graph

B.   Histogram

C.   Frequency polygon

D.   Frequency distribution

10: A graphical representation of a frequency distribution in which vertical bars are centered above each category along the x-axis and separated from each other by a space is called a ______.

A.   Histogram

B.   Bar graph

C.   Pie graph

D.   Frequency polygon

11: A good rule of thumb when creating an illustration is:

A.   Make sure your graph communicates only one idea.

B.   Do not label items.

C.   Use a lot of text.

D.   Do not worry about centering titles and axis labels.

12: If I collected data on the number of children per family in a particular neighborhood, what type of graph should I use to organize the data?

A.   Histogram

B.   Bar graph

C.   Frequency polygon

D.   Frequency distribution

13: If I collected data on the frequency of various ethnicities represented at a university, what type of graph should I use to organize the data?

A.   Histogram

B.   Bar graph

C.   Frequency polygon

D.   Frequency distribution

14: A graphical representation of a frequency distribution in which vertical bars centered above scores on the x-axis that touch each other is called a ______.

A.   Histogram

B.   Bar graph

C.   Pie graph

D.   Frequency polygon

15: Which method is for illustrating how often scores occur in groups?

A.   Histogram

B.   Frequency distribution

C.   Sample distribution

D.   Cumulative frequency distribution

16: A ____ range of values, used in the creation of a frequency distribution is class interval

A.   Fixed

B.   Constant

C.   Variation

D.   Different

17: A graphical representation of a frequency distribution that uses bars of different heights to show the number of values that fall within each class interval is called

A.   Histogram

B.   Telegram

C.   Polygon

D.   None

18: The central point in a class interval.

A.   ____ is the central point in a class interval.

B.   Mean

C.   Mode

D.   Mid point

E.   Scale point

19: In which frequency graphical representation of a frequency distribution that uses a continuous line to show the number of values that fall within a class interval?

A.   Triangle

B.   Variation

C.   Polygon

D.   All of these

20: A ____ frequency distribution that shows frequencies for class intervals along with the cumulative frequency at each.

A.   Histogram

B.   Frequency distribution

C.   Sample distribution

D.   Cumulative frequency distribution

21: In which frequency ogive is representation of a ___ distribution

A.   Histogram

B.   Frequency distribution

C.   Sample distribution

D.   Cumulative frequency distribution

22: When making pareto charts, data should be arranged ________________________ according to frequency.

A.   From smallest to largest

B.   With increasing time

C.   From largest to smallest

D.   Clockwise