Applied Healthcare Statistics Objective
Assessment Questions with 100% Correct
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Conditional Percentages - correct answer A way to approximate a percentage by
dividing the number of times an event occurred in an experiment by the total number
of respondents in that row or column. See Relative Frequency.
Hypothesis Test - correct answer A statistical test that tells us whether a result is
significant.
Disjoint - correct answer Two events which both cannot occur at the same time.
What is 3/14 - 1/7?
A. 1/14
B. 2/7
C. 5/14
D. 3/2 - correct answer A. 1/14
Whole Number - correct answer A number whose value is 0 or greater (negative
number are not considered whole numbers) and can be represented without a
fractional or decimal component.
Cross Multiplying - correct answer A method used to prove that a proportion is true.
Addition Principle of Equality - correct answer The fact that we can add the same
number to both sides of an equation, and the result will be an equivalent equation.
Dot Plot - correct answer A graphical representation of data that plots the frequency
of data along a horizontal line.
Independent Variable - correct answer The variable that may be the cause of some
result, or is presented as the variable that offers an explanation. Also called an
explanatory variable.
Regression Equation - correct answer An equation used to model the relationship
between the response and explanatory variables in a regression.
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Applied Healthcare Statistics Objective
Assessment Questions with 100% Correct
Answers– WGU
Tree Diagram - correct answer A diagram that records all the events in a sample
space by attaching each new set of events to each branch of the earlier events. The
number of outermost branches gives the sample size.
What is 2/3 + 1/4?
A. 11/12
B. 3/12
C. 3/7
D. 8/3 - correct answer A. 11/12
Positive Number - correct answer A number whose value is greater than zero. On the
number line, positive numbers are to the right of zero.
Rate - correct answer A ratio that compares two quantities having different units of
measure.
Quadrants - correct answer The four sections of the coordinate plane, separated and
defined by the x-axis and y-axis.
Minimum - correct answer The smallest value in a set.
Non-Linear - correct answer An expression or equation that is illustrated by
something other than a straight line.
Linear Interpolation - correct answer Estimation using the linear regression equation
in between known data points.
Sample Space - correct answer The entire set of outcomes for a trial or experiment.
A patient's protein intake for today has been 15.76g, 8.49g, and 22.58g. What is the total
protein intake rounded to the nearest tenth of a decimal?
A. 46.5g
B. 46.8g