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Mid-Semester Exam 1. Chebyshev’s theorem states that the percentage of measurements in a data set that fall within three standard deviations of their mean is: a. 75%. b. at least 75%. c. 89%. d. at least 89%. 2. Which of the following is not a measure of variability? a. The range. b. The variance. c. The arithmetic mean. d. The standard deviation. e. The interquartile range. 3. The length of the box in the box-and-whisker plot portrays the: a. median. b. interquartile range. c. range. d. third quartile. 4. A summary measure that is computed from a sample to describe a characteristic of the population is called: a. a parameter. b. a statistic. c. a population. d. Both A and C are correct, since they are the same. 5. The function f(x) that defines the probability distribution of a continuous random variable X is a: a. binomial function. b. normal function. c. Poisson function. d. probability density function. 6.The number of accidents that occur annually on a busy stretch of highway is an example of: a. a discrete random variable. b. a continuous random variable. c. a discrete probability distribution. d. a continuous probability distribution. 7. If all possible samples of size n are drawn from a population, the probability distribution of the sample mean is called the: a. standard error of . b. expected value of . c. sampling distribution of . d. normal distribution. 8. If a random sample of size n is drawn from a normal population, then the sampling distribution of the sample mean will be: a. normal for all values of n. b. normal only for n 30. c. approximately normal for all values of n. d. approximately normal only for n 30. 9. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is also called the: a. central limit theorem. b. standard error of the mean. c. finite population correction factor. d. population standard deviation. 10. A statistical measure of the strength of the linear relationship between two rand