Probability and statistics trivia

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• Standard deviation has the same unit as the original data.Probability and statistics
• If two events with nonzero probability are mutually exclusive, they are independent.Probability and statistics
• Which term in probability names the case where an event does not happen?Probability and statistics
• In how many ways can two people be chosen from five when the order does not matter?Probability and statistics
• The mean is the total of the data divided by how many values there are.Probability and statistics
• The median is the value that sits in the middle once the data are put in order.Probability and statistics
• Two dice are rolled. What is the probability that the product of the numbers is odd?Probability and statistics
• A mean barely moves even when one unusually large value is mixed into the data.Probability and statistics
• What is the mean of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5?Probability and statistics
• Rolling a single die, the chance of getting a face you named in advance is one in six.Probability and statistics
• What is the value that appears most often in a set of data called?Probability and statistics
• What is the probability that two dice show a total of 7?Probability and statistics
• After heads has come up five times in a row, tails becomes more likely on the next toss.Probability and statistics
• A larger standard deviation means the data sit closer to the mean.Probability and statistics
• Two coins are tossed together. What is the chance that both come up heads?Probability and statistics
• Which graph splits data into a few intervals and shows the count in each as the height of a bar?Probability and statistics
• If two sets of data rise and fall together, one can be taken as the cause of the other.Probability and statistics
• Which distribution forms a bell shape symmetric about the mean and turns up often in heights and test scores?Probability and statistics
• In how many ways can three different books be lined up in a row on a shelf?Probability and statistics
• With 23 people in a classroom, the chance that some pair shares a birthday is over half.Probability and statistics
• A prize sits behind one of three doors. You pick one and the host opens an empty door. What now?Probability and statistics
• What is the median of 1, 3, 5, 7, 9?Probability and statistics
• What is the probability of rolling a 5 or a 6 on one fair die?Probability and statistics
• A card is drawn from cards numbered 1 through 10. What is the probability of drawing a 7?Probability and statistics
• How many ways are there to choose 2 items from 6 distinct items if order does not matter?Probability and statistics
• A probability is a number from 0 through 1.Probability and statistics
• The probability of rolling an even number on one fair die is 1/2.Probability and statistics
• The graph of a normal distribution is symmetric about the mean.Probability and statistics
• A number of outcomes can be negative.Probability and statistics
• The relative frequencies of all classes add up to 2.Probability and statistics
• If a trial with success probability p is repeated n times, what is the mean number of successes?Probability and statistics
• What is the value of P(5, 2)?Probability and statistics
• How many ways can 4 distinct people sit at a round table if rotations look the same?Probability and statistics
• On a box plot, what value does the line inside the box show?Probability and statistics
• If a trial with only success or failure is repeated 10 times, which distribution does the number of successes follow?Probability and statistics
• If event A has already occurred, the probability of A under that condition is 1.Probability and statistics
• Variance is equal to the square root of the standard deviation.Probability and statistics
• If two events cannot happen at the same time, the probability that at least one happens is the sum of their probabilities.Probability and statistics
• If every data value is the same, the variance is 0.Probability and statistics
• In sampling without replacement, a drawn item is put back before the next draw.Probability and statistics
• If an item is put back before the next draw, each draw has the same conditions.Probability and statistics
• A bag holds 2 red balls and 2 blue balls. What is the probability of drawing a red ball?Probability and statistics
• From cards labeled 1, 2, 3, and 4, what is the probability of drawing an even number?Probability and statistics
• In a frequency table, what is the name of the interval that groups the data?Probability and statistics
• What diagram plots pairs of two variables as points on a coordinate plane?Probability and statistics
• If rock, paper, or scissors is chosen at random, what is the probability of matching one prechosen option?Probability and statistics
• The probability of heads on one toss of a fair coin is 1/2.Probability and statistics
• If two events do not affect each other, the probability that both happen is the product of their probabilities.Probability and statistics
• In a bar graph, the height of a bar shows the rank of the data.Probability and statistics
• In a pie chart, the central angles of all slices add up to 180 degrees.Probability and statistics