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14. The word "constant" in line 3 is closest in meaning to
(A) invariable
(B) persistent
(C) predictable
(D) responsive

15. The word "its" in line 3 refers to
(A) temperature >(B) cold
(C) coat
(D) bird

16. In lines 7-9, the author mentions young arctic terns as an example of birds that
(A) do not migrate
(B) breed during migration
(C) migrate instinctively
(D) adapt to the cold

l7. The word "they" in line 16 refers to
(A) glands
(B) birds
(C) body functions
(D) hormones

18. According to the passage, birds exposed to longer periods of darkness experience all of the following changes EXCEPT
(A) activated glands
(B) excited behavior
(C) retention of more fat
(D) increased appetite

19. In the experiment mentioned in the passage, the scientists adjusted the birds
(A) food supply
(B) body temperatures
(C) exposure to light
(D) brain chemistry

20. Where in the passage does the author mention the substance that enables birds to fly long distances?
(A) Lines 2-4
(B) Lines 5-7
(C) Lines 10-11
(D) Lines 16-17

Question 21-30

£ £ £ £  There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical
methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of
governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status) and a
gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his skill at playing
the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistics, is
represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating, ordering. and the taking of
censuses --- all of which led to modern descriptive statistics. From the influence of
the father came modern inferential statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability.

£ £ £ £ £ Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections of data.
These data may be quantitative, such as measures of height, intelligence, or grade level -
variables that are characterized by an underlying continuum - orthe data may represent
qualitative variables, such as sex, college major, or personality type. Large masses of data
must generally undergo a process of summarization or reduction before they are
comprehensible. Descriptive statistics is a tool for describing or summarizing or
reducing to comprehensible form the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass or data.

£ £ £ £ £  Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class of£ 
problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This general class
of problems characteristically involves attempts to make predictions using a sample of
observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes to determine the proportion
of children in a large school system who come to school without breakfast, have been
vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent
would know that it is unnecessary and inefficient to question each child; the proportion
for the entire district could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as l00
children. Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics
of a population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of the population.

21. With what is the passage mainly concerned ?
(A) The drawbacks of descriptive and inferential statistics
(B) Applications of inferential statistics
(C) The development and use of statistics
(D) How to use descriptive statistics

22. The word "divergent" in line 1 is closest in meaning to
(A) different
(B) distributed
(C) recorded
(D) prominent

23. According to the first paragraph, counting and census-taking arc associated with
(A) inferential statistics
(B) descriptive statistics
(C) unknown variables
(D) qualitative changes

24. Why does the author mention the "mother" and "father" in thefirst paragraph?
(A) To point out that parents can teach their children statistics
(B) To introduce inferential statistic
(C) To explain that there are different kinds of variables
(D) To present the background of statistics in a humorous and understandable way

25. The word "squarely" in line 8 could best be replaced by
(A) solidly
(B) geometrically
(C) rectangularly
(D) haphazrardly

26. Which of the following is NOT given an example of a qualitative variable?
(A) Gender
(B) Height
(C) College major
(D) Type of personality

27. The word "they" in line 13 refers to
(A) variables
(B) masses
(C) descriptive statistics
(D) properties

28. Which of the following statements about descript

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passage?
(A) It reduces large amounts of data to a more comprehensible form.
(B) It is based on probability.
(C) It can be used by people with little knowledge of mathematics.
(D) It measures only qualitative differences.

29. The word "unwieldy" in line 15 is