1. Say that someone’s body temperature is measured by four different devices andthe resulting four measurements are given below. Which reading has an absoluteerror of ± 0.05 °C?
A. 38 °C
B. 37.8 °C
C. 37.85 °C
D. 37.855 °C

2. What can be correctly said of data that are “normally distributed”?
A. The upper and lower values of the distribution describe the healthy range ofphysiological values.
B. The standard deviation characterises the dispersion of data and the variancecharacterises the central tendency of the data.
C. The mean and range are statistics that are strictly only applicable to normallydistributed data.
D. Sixty eight percent of all data values will be within one standard deviationfrom the mean.

3. If someone’s height is measured while the person is wearing shoes, the heightwill be overestimated. This type of error is known as which of the following?
A. Absolute error
B. Parallax error
C. Calibration error
D. Zeroing error

4. Which of the following metric prefi xes is used to denote one thousandth of agram?
A. micro
B. milli
C. centi
D. kilo