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Choose an appropriate scale for the data 31, 25, 37, 41, and 38. |
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0-100 |
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25-41 |
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31-38 |
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0-50 |
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How many minutes would you have to exercise each day to have a resting heart rate of 60 beats per minute? |
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10 minutes |
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30 minutes |
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60 minutes |
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20 minutes |
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What would you predict your heart rate would be if you exercise 40 minutes per day? |
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120 |
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0 |
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50 |
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10 |
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4. |
The following are scores on an English exam. The highest score possible is 100. Where is there a cluster? |
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20-100 |
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60-75 |
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90-100 |
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20-30 |
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The mean is the _______ of a set of numbers. |
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highest number |
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arithmetic average |
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most frequent |
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middle number |
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Which is the correct box-and-whisker plot for the quiz scores? |
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Which statistic gives the most accurate information for the following set of test scores? 2, 85, 87, 88, 89 |
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range |
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median |
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mode |
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mean |
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Which is not a reason that measures of central tendency for a set of data can be misleading? |
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inaccurate data |
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too much data |
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outliers in the data |
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incomplete data |
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Choose an appropriate scale for the data 69, 72, 121, 81, 98. |
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70 to 120 |
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70 to 100 |
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65 to 125 |
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40 to 100 |
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10. |
How many states in this group used at least 17 hundred trillion BTU's of energy? |
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12 |
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11 |
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9 |
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10 |
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Find the mode of {2, 2, 3, 9, 7, 9, 3, 7, 3}. |
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5 |
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3 |
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7 |
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2 |
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What is the correct box-and-whisker plot for the data {11, 13, 18, 19, 22, 25, 29, 32, 37, 37, 38}? |
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The table shows the scores of the University of Texas men’s basketball team during the 2002-2003 regular season. Make a stem-and-leaf-plot and use it to find the statement that best describes the data. |
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The mode is 77 points scored. |
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The data point 58 is an outlier. |
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The majority of points scored were in the 70s. |
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The majority of points scored were in the 80s. |
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The stem-and-leaf plot shows the bowling scores of one round of a bowling meet. Choose the statement that best describes how the data are spread out. |
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The bowling scores are evenly spread out between 116 and 168. |
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The mode represents the average bowling score. |
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The majority of bowlers scored 149 points or greater. |
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The majority of bowlers scored 149 points or less. |
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The graphs below show the number of minutes spent on the phone. Which graph would you use to compare the amount of minutes spent on the phone Tuesday and Friday? |
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The graphs below show the number of minutes spent on the phone. Which graph would you use to determine how many calls were between 6 and 20 minutes? |
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