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Question 1

1.  If a score of 25 occurred 4 times in a sample of 9, what would it's relative frequency be?

 2.25

 4

 0.444

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Question 2

1.    The following set of data is the height in inches of women age 18 to 24 years old. Create a frequency distribution for the following set of data:

64     67     63     65     66

63     66     62     65     65

60     72     64     61     65

69     64     64     66     61

65     67     65     62     69

62     65     63     64     61

66     64     59     63     65

63     63     68     64     65

66     67     62     62     63

64     70     64     67     65

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Question 3

1.  The proportion of the area under the curve at certain scores and the relative frequency correspond.

 False

 True

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Question 4

1. How is the relative frequency of a score calculated?

By dividing the raw score by N.

By dividing a score's fruequency by N.

By dividing N in half.

By multiplying the percentile by 100.

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Question 5

1.  A teacher finds that a distribution of test scores is negatively skewed. What does this tell the teacher about the difficulty of the test?

 It's too hard.

 It's too easy.

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Question 6

1. The age in months of all first graders would likely produce a distribution that was

 negatively skewed

 symmetrical (normal)

 positively skewed

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Question 7

1. A percentile is defined as

the percent of all scores in the data above and beyond anything ever expected.

the percent of all scores in the data below a particular score.

the frequency of all scores in the data above a particular score.

the frequency of that particular score.

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Question 8

1.  We want to find out how many people graduates in psychology are the first-born, second-born, or third-born in their families. We believe being first-born is directly related to majoring in psychology. How should we graph the data we collect?

 bar

 frequency polygon

 histogram

 normal bell curve

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Question 9

1.  The age at death of everyone who died in one year would likely produce a distribution that is 

 negatively skewed

 symmetrical (normal)

 positively skewed

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Question 10

1.  Are most scores in a positively skewed distribution directly to the right or the left of the middle score?

 left

 right

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Question 11

1. Distributions can have virtually unlimited shape.  Which is the most important fruequency distribution? 

skrewed and chopped

bimodal

normal

frequency distribution

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Question 12

1.  The percentage of all scores in the data that are above a particular score is the definition of percentile.

 False

 True

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Question 13

1.  A class scores mostly C's and F's on their first psychology exam. What kind of distribution will this produce?

 positively skewed

 negatively skewed

 normal

 bimodal