FSOT: 500 Test Prep Study Questions - Question List

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226. Your organization develops a marketing strategy to reach its target audience by using the science or process of drawing likely conclusions about populations by analyzing samples from that population, known as:
  1. descriptive statistics
  2. standard deviations
  3. inferential statistics
  4. central tendency
227. Ten candidates for employment earn the following scores on a general aptitude test: 67, 98, 78, 89, 86, 92, 56, 87, 90, 98. If the scores are based on a 100 point scale, what is the range?
  1. 2
  2. 10
  3. 42
  4. 84
228. If your organization is conducting research to investigate the role that gender plays in obesity related heath problems, out the possible variables considered, which of the following would be considered independent?
  1. gender
  2. blood pressure
  3. weight
  4. number of annual trips to the doctor
229. You are developing official forms for a target population. In conducting research, you gather data about your target population from a random sample. This data includes race, gender, and family status. This type of variable is known as:
  1. ordinal
  2. interval
  3. ratio
  4. nominal
230. A computer program that runs an alarm system which automatically notifies the police if a door or window is opened, and 15 seconds pass without the disarm code being entered, is designed using:
  1. heuristics
  2. algorithms
  3. fixed ratios
  4. standard deviations

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