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A graph is misleading if ______. |
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it is a bar graph |
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it has a title |
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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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upper quartile |
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mode |
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mean |
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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incomplete data |
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outliers in the data |
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inaccurate data |
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too much data |
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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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mean |
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median |
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range |
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mode |
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If you have taken five English tests this quarter and received scores of 72, 72, 93, 94, and 95, what misleading statistic could you use to make your grades look better than they are? |
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median |
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mean |
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range |
D. |
mode |
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