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Math 181: Test for Chapter 8

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____________________ 1. which of the following?
  1. a Nominal measurement
  2. an Ordinal measurement
  3. an Interval measurement
  4. a Ratio measurement
  5. none of the above

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____________________ 11. Determine the mode family income in the table above.

____________________ 12. Determine the median family income in the table above.



____________________ 13. What is the total annual income of all the families reported in the table above.



____________________ 14. What is the mean family income in the table above. Write your answers rounded to the nearest penny.



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____________________ 16. Determine the mode of the data.

____________________ 17. Determine the median of the data.

____________________ 18. Determine the mean of the data. Write your answers rounded to 4 decimal places.

Use the following table of ratio measurements to answer questions 19 through 24 on this test.


____________________ 19. Determine the mean of the data. Write your answers rounded to 4 decimal places.

____________________ 20. Determine the median of the data.

____________________ 21. Determine the mode of the data.

____________________ 22. Determine the range of the data.

____________________ 23. Determine the 1st and 3rd quartile values of the data.

____________________ 24. Determine the standard deviation of the data, assuming the data represents a population, not a sample. Write your answers rounded to 4 decimal places.

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