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100

The temperatures (in oF) of 5 randomly selected children in a pediatrician’s office, recorded as {99, 101, 98, 102, 100}, is this type of data.

What is numerical continuous?

100

The expected value of the Poisson distribution is equal to this value.

What is

E(X)=\lambda

?

100

In the US, the candlepin version of this sport is only found in New England.

What is bowling?

100

When calculating quartiles, this is the first step that should be taken with the data.

What is ordering from smallest to largest?

100

The first chapter of this first novel, published in 1997, is titled "The Boy Who Lived."

What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's / Philosopher's Stone?

200

If the mean is less than the median, then this is the skewness type.

What is negative/left skewness?

200

A Binomial trial consists of this many independent Bernoulli trials.

What is n ?

200

This is the actual name of "Baby Yoda" in The Mandalorian.

What is Grogu?

200

In a boxplot this is the "box" .

What is the IQR or middle 50%?

200

Meryl Streep brought depth to the antagonistic editor of Runway magazine in the big screen (and arguably better) adaptation of this novel.

What is The Devil Wears Prada?

300

This adjective describes a sample of data used to estimate a target population.

What is representative?

300

Given Z ~ N(0,1^2) this is P(-1.12<=Z<5.67) 

What is 86.86% ?

300

This animal is the largest rodent in the world and endemic to the Amazon rainforest.

What is a capybara?

300

When generating a histogram, this is the ideal number of bins to use.

What is dependent on context?

300

The ROUSes, which stood for "Rodents Of Unusual Size," were found in fire swamps in this novel that can be considered comedy, drama, romance, and fantasy all wrapped into one.

What is The Princess Bride?

400

A Harvard researcher, interested in the opinions of highly-educated people about a major political issue, randomly surveys students on the Harvard campus as they are walking between classes as their sample. 

The researcher likely committed this type of sampling error.

What is selection bias?

400

For any discrete distribution, this mathematical operation of all its probabilities is equal to 1.

What is the sum?

400

A cat with polydactylism has an unusual number of these appendages.

What are toes?

400

The upper adjacent value is calculated using this formula.

What is 

Q_3 + 1.5*IQR

400

A teenage Shia LaBeouf starred in the Disney adaptation of this novel with characters such as Mr. Sir, Kissin' Kate Barlow, and Armpit.

What is Holes?

500

These are the entities on which measurements or observations can be made.

What are sampling units?

500

Given a discrete random variable X follows a Binomial distribution with the parameters  n=24 and p=0.82 , this is P(X>22) .

What is 5.35%?

500

The American robin is this type of bird.

What is a thrush?

500

Given the following data, this value would be considered a mathematical outlier.

X={1.74, 1.12, 1.27, 1.26, 2.35, 0.51, 0.83}

What is 2.35?

500

A light was shone on the contributions of Katherine Johnson, and other black female mathematicians, to NASA's space program in the 1960's in the big screen adaptation of this work of nonfiction.

What is Hidden Figures?