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A mix of easy, medium and hard — questions run from warm-up to expert, so there's a real challenge at every level. Think you know the answers? Play to find out.
In a shoe store's sales records, the size sold more often than any other earns this distinction as a measure of center.
Difficulty: Easy- Mode
- Median
- Mean
- Range
Counting how many of a fixed number of independent yes/no trials succeed, like heads in ten flips, follows this discrete model.
Difficulty: Medium- Poisson distribution
- Binomial distribution
- Geometric distribution
- Normal distribution
Taking the expected value of e raised to t-times-X creates this transform whose derivatives at zero reproduce a distribution's mean, variance, and beyond.
Difficulty: Hard- Characteristic function
- Probability generating function
- Moment generating function
- Cumulant function
Add up all the test scores in a class, then divide by the number of students, and you have computed this familiar average.
Difficulty: Easy- Median
- Mean
- Mode
- Range
The chance of one event given that another has already happened, written P(A given B), carries this two-word name.
Difficulty: Medium- Joint probability
- Marginal probability
- Conditional probability
- Total probability
In this kind of random process, the next state depends only on the present one, not on the full history of how you arrived.
Difficulty: Hard- Markov chain
- Random walk
- Poisson process
- Bernoulli process
Line up nine salaries from lowest to highest; the fifth one sitting right in the center is this measure.
Difficulty: Easy- Mode
- Range
- Median
- Mean
Arranging six runners into possible first-through-third finishing orders, where sequence matters, counts the number of these.
Difficulty: Medium- Permutation
- Combination
- Factorial
- Variation
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