1. A university wishes to conduct a student survey. In one of the questions students are asked to mark their gender as either male or female. Gender is an example of the:

Ordinal scale

Nominal scale

Ratio scale

Interval scale

2.The members of each basketball team wear numbers on their jerseys. What scale of measurement are these numbers considered?

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

3.A survey includes a question regarding marital status that has the following responses: single, married, divorced, separated, or widowed. What is the scale of measurement for this question?

Ratio

Interval

Ordinal

Nominal

4.What level of measurement is the Centigrade temperature scale?

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

5.The general process of gathering, organizing, summarizing, analyzing, and interpreting data is called ____________.

Statistics

Descriptive statistics

Inferential statistics

Levels of measurement

6.When TV advertisements report "2 out of 3 dentists surveyed indicated they would recommend Brand X toothpaste to their patients," an informed consumer may question the conclusion because the:

Sample was only 5 dentists.

Sample of dentists is clearly explained.

Advertisement does not include the total number of dentists surveyed.

Conclusion is not illustrated with a graph.

7.The incomes of 50 loan applicants are obtained. Which level of measurement is income?

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

8.The names of the positions in a corporation, such as chief operating officer or controller, are examples of what type of variable?

Qualitative

Quantitative

Interval

Ratio

9.Respondents were asked, "Do you now earn more than or less than you did five years ago?" What is this level of measurement?

Interval

Ratio

Nominal

Ordinal

10.The Nielsen Ratings break down the number of people watching a particular television show by age. What level of measurement is age?

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

11.A portion or part of a population is called a:

Random survey

Sample

Tally

Frequency distribution

12.What type of variable is "pounds of popcorn" served at a movie theater?

Interval

Ratio

Discrete

Continuous

13.Sometimes, a data set has two values that have the highest and equal frequencies. In this case, the distribution of the data can best be described as __________.

Symmetric

Bimodal (having two modes)

Positively skewed

Negatively skewed