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A graph is misleading if ______. |
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it has a title |
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it is a bar graph |
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it is a line graph with years labeled on the horizontal axis |
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there are no labels on either scale |
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Which statistic is misleading in the following set of test scores? 2, 85, 87, 88, 89 |
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mean |
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mode |
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upper quartile |
D. |
median |
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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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too much data |
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outliers in the data |
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inaccurate data |
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incomplete data |
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Which statistic gives the most meaningful information about what price you should expect to pay for a certain baseball bat if the following data are a set of prices at different stores for the bat. {10, 10, 10, 10, 10.50, 11, 12, 14, 18}. |
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range |
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mode |
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median |
D. |
mean |
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An automobile dealer wants to sell a certain car for $20,000. If three other dealers in town are selling the same car for $15,000, $15,000, and $30,000, which measure of central should the car dealer use to describe this data to his customers? |
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range |
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mean |
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mode |
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median |
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