Quiz questions

This assignment involves writing 3 potential multiple-choice quiz questions with reasonable answers. Please indicate the chapter the question relates to, the page(s) where the answer can be found, and what the correct answer is.

Example quiz

It would be appropriate to evaluate the ratio of bar heights in a bar graph for which of the following:

  1. Temperature in Celsius
  2. Years
  3. Temperature in Fahrenheit
  4. Enzyme activity


The mean plus or minus one SD represents what percentage of values in a Gaussian population:

  1. 95.4%
  2. 33.33%
  3. 45%
  4. 68.3%


For what type of variable is it meaningful to compute the coefficient of variation:

  1. Nominal
  2. Ratio
  3. Interval
  4. Ordinal