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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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upper quartile |
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mode |
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median |
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Which statistic reveals the least about the increase in the following average gasoline prices for seven consecutive weeks? $1.05, $1.05, $1.05, $1.55, $1.65, $1.75, $2.00 |
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median |
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range |
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mode |
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mean |
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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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mode |
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median |
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range |
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mean |
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Which statistic gives the most meaningful information about the central tendency of the data {23, 25, 26, 26, 27, 29, 29, 30, 450, 450, 450}? |
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median |
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range |
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C. |
mean |
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mode |
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Both bar graphs show the amount it costs to heat a two-story house during the winter. Which graph is misleading? Explain. |
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Graph A; the months are not ordered from greatest to least cost. |
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Graph A; there is no break in the vertical scale, the cost of heating the house in December and February are about the same. |
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Graph B; the months are not ordered from least to greatest cost. |
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Graph B; there is a break in the vertical scale, the cost of heating the house in January appears to be much greater than heating the house in November. |
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