Sports
Nickname of Michigan Stadium
What is the big house?
What year was U-M founded
1817
Which MBus is the most used?
Bursley/Baits
What's the name of U-M's newspaper?
The Michigan Daily
What is the probability of rolling a 6 on a fair six-sided die?
1/6
What conference does Michigan compete in?
What is the Big 10
True or false: U-M was founded before Michigan became a state
+50 for year Michigan became a state
True
+50 1837
What U-M landmark is painted and repainted by student organizations throughout the year?
The Rock
What is U-M official mascot?
We don't have one!
What statistic do you calculate by adding all observations together and dividing by the number of observations?
Mean
Michigan Stadium seats roughly how many people?
exact: 107,000
Points received for +/10,000
Which U.S. president attended U-M and played football?
Gerald Ford
Five students report waiting 5, 7, 10, 13, and 20 minutes for a Bursley-Baits Bus. What was the median wait time?
10
If 60% of students own a Michigan hoodie, how many would you expect out of 50 students?
30
Which is more resistant to outliers: mean or median
median
A Michigan basketball player makes 8 of 10 free throws. What is their free-throw percentage?
80%
In which city was U-M originally founded?
+50 if you get the year we moved to Ann Arbor
Detriot. 1837
You randomly survey 100 students on the Diag at noon. Why might this not represent all U-M students?
Sampling bias
What U-M alumnus co-founded Google?
Larry Page
You flip two fair coins. What's the probability of getting exactly one head?
50%
A Michigan basketball player scores 12, 18, 20, 25, and 30 points over five games. What is their average points per game?
21 points
U-M enrollment increased from 40,000 students to 50,000 students. What was the percent increase in enrollment?
25%
A survey randomly samples 200 U-M students, and 120 say they regularly ride the North Commuter. Based on the sample, what percentage of students regularly ride the bus?
60%
If 60% of U-M students own Michigan apparel. If you randomly select two students, and assume their responses are independent, what is the probability both own Michigan apparel?
0.60 * 0.60 = 0.36 * 100 = 36%
A distribution has a few extremely large values pulling its tail to the right. What shape is it?
right-skewed