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SQA Higher Applications of Mathematics Statistics and Probability overview quiz quiz

16questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which diagram is best for comparing the distributions of two data sets side by side?

  2. A data set has Q1=25Q_1 = 25 and Q3=41Q_3 = 41. What is the interquartile range?

  3. A value is an outlier if it lies above which boundary?

  4. Which sampling method splits a population into groups and samples each in proportion to its size?

  5. Pearson's correlation coefficient rr can take values in which range?

  6. A correlation coefficient of r=βˆ’0.88r = -0.88 describes which relationship?

  7. In the regression line y=a+bxy = a + bx, what does the slope bb represent?

  8. Predicting a value within the range of the observed data is called

  9. A strong correlation between two variables means

  10. What is the p-value in a hypothesis test?

  11. At a 5%5\% significance level, a p-value of 0.010.01 leads you to

  12. Which test is used to compare a sample mean with a claim when the population standard deviation is unknown?

  13. Raising the confidence level from 95%95\% to 99%99\% for the same data makes the interval

  14. For two independent events, P(AΒ andΒ B)P(A \text{ and } B) equals

  15. On a tree diagram, the probability of a particular sequence of outcomes is found by

  16. A game pays Β£8\pounds 8 with probability 0.250.25 and nothing otherwise. The expected value is