MMW Midterm Examination

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Understanding Data and Problem Solving

Welcome to the MMW Midterm Examination, a comprehensive quiz designed to assess your knowledge on data collection methodologies, problem-solving techniques, and statistical data presentations. Whether you are preparing for an exam or looking to reinforce your understanding, this quiz covers fundamental concepts to help you succeed.

35 Questions to challenge your knowledge
Covers various data handling and problem-solving strategies
Perfect for students, researchers, and anyone interested in data analysis

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Is the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning.

Meaning the state of being aware of or knowing something without having to discover or perceive it, or the ability to do this

Is an argument which convinces other people that something is true.

Is an argument for a mathematical statement. It is a conclusive evidence or an argument that serves to establish a fact or the truth of something; consists of a test or trial of something to establish that is true.

The conclusion is established by logically combining the axioms, definitions and earlier theorems.

Known as the father of modern problem solving who did extensive studies and wrote papers and books about problem solving, formulated the four-step approach to problem solving.

Polya’s Four Steps to Problem Solving are:

Involves problems, riddles, puzzles, brain-teasers and games carried out for recreation or leisure rather than as a research or application-based professional activity.

Is the development, execution and supervision of plans, policies, programs and practices that control, protect, deliver, and enhance the value of data and information assets. It is an administrative process by which the required data is acquired, validated, stored, protected, and processed, and by which its accessibility, reliability, and timeliness is ensured to satisfy the needs of the data users.

It is a process of gathering raw data.

The researcher makes direct and personal contact with the interviewee.

The researcher distributes the questionnaires either personally or by mail and collects them by the same process

This method of collecting data is governed by our existing laws.

This method of collecting data is used to find out the cause and effect relationship of certain phenomena under controlled conditions.

The researcher may observe subjects individually or group of individuals to obtain data and information related to the objectives of the investigation.

Data collected or obtained from whatever manner are called

Classifies data in non-overlapping scale.

Classifies data into some specified order or rank.

Assigns real numbers to observations to reflect distance between rank position of the respondents or objects in equal units.

Assigns numbers to observations to reflect the existence of true absolute zero point as its origin

Gives a clear picture of various relationship among different data presented

Makes use of words, sentences and paragraphs in presentation. It is commonly used when there are only few numerical data to be enumerated or to be compared with other data.

Is a systematic presentation of data in rows and columns. It is used when related numerical facts need to be classified in arrays.

Shows numerical values or relationships in pictorial form. It makes use of graphs, symbols or visuals.

Type of Graphical Presentation; used when (1) data cover a long period of time; (2) several series are compared; (3) movements are to be emphasized; (4) trends are to be established; and (5) estimate are to be forecasted.

Type of Graphical Presentation; used when numerical values of an item over a period of time are compared. It consists of regular bars when the height of bars represents quantity or frequency for each category.

Type of Graphical Presentation; used to show percentage or the composition by parts of a whole.

Type of Graphical Presentation; used to immediately suggest the nature of data.

An arrangement of the numerical data/values according to order of magnitude either ascending or descending.

A condensed version of an array. It categorizes the numerical data into intervals or classes.

Is a descriptive statistic that describes the average, or typical value of a set of scores

Data which are arranged in frequency distribution where data was given an interval.

Small set of data where data was given as individual data points.

A group of data are called

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