1.  
    A. B.
    C. no solution D.
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  2.   The Carpenter family earns $30,000 a year after taxes. In their budget $8000 is needed for housing, $8000 for food, $4000 towards clothing, and the rest toward miscellaneous expenses. Which two categories of the Carpenters' expenses would be represented by sectors of the same size in a circle graph?
    A. food and miscellaneous B. food and housing
    C. food and clothing D. clothing and miscellaneous
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  3.   The Carpenter family earns $30,000 a year after taxes. In their budget $8000 is needed for housing, $8000 for food, $4000 towards clothing, and the rest toward miscellaneous expenses. In a circle graph of this data, how many degrees are allowed for housing?
    A. 100° B. 98°
    C. 96° D. 94°
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  4.   Find the mean, median, and mode for {4, 6, 7, 7, 11, 12, 16}.
    A. 9, 9, 7 B. 7, 9, 7
    C. 9, 7, 7 D. 7, 7, 9
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  5.   Over 11 consecutive days, Jim did the following number of pushups. 7, 8, 10, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 17, 19, 33. What is the upper quartile of the data?
    A. 10 B. 26
    C. 14 D. 17
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  6.   Which type of display is most appropriate for showing scores on a standardized exam in a particular city?
    A. bar graph B. scatter plot
    C. line plot D. histogram
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  7.   Find the median of 12.3, 13.1, , 14, and 14.7.
    A. 13.1 B. 14
    C. 12.3 D.
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  8.   Find -.
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  9.   Which graph is most appropriate to show the number of each letter grade the members of a class earned on a test?
    A. Bar Graph B. Circle Graph
    C. Scatter Plot D. Table
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  10.   The table shows seven different companies and their prices for car detailing. Company A claims to have prices that are less than the prices of most of their competitors. Is this an accurate statement? Why?
   
    A. Not Enough Information Given
    B. No, Company A's price is equal to those of most of the other companies.
    C. No, Company A's price is lower than the mode, but higher than the prices of the 4 other companies.
    D. Yes, more companies charge $93 than any other price.
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  11.   The histogram shows the record high temperatures for the fifty states. How many states have a record high temperature less than 115°F?
   
    A. 28 states B. 11 states
    C. 40 states D. 17 states
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  12.   The histograms show the number of buildings above 400 feet in Dallas and Philadelphia. Which statement is true?
   
    A. Philadelphia has more buildings 700 feet or taller than Dallas has.
    B. Philadelphia has more buildings 400 feet and taller than Dallas has.
    C. Dallas has more buildings between 400 and 599 feet than Philadelphia has.
    D. Dallas has more buildings 600 feet or taller than Philadelphia has.
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  13.   Find the interquartile range of the data.
68, 15, 55, 5, 66, 42, 51, 12, 23
    A. 63 B. 47
    C. 60.5 D. 42
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  14.   Which box-and-whisker plot represents the data?
12, 14, 16, 1, 25, 22, 12, 18, 5, 13, 17, 18
    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.
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  15.   Which statement about the data represented by the box-and-whisker plot is not true?
   
    A. The top half of the data is more spread out than the bottom half of the data. B. Half of the data is between 50 and 56.
    C. The interquartile range is 6. D. One fourth of the data is between 62 and 80.
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  16.   The graphs show the same information about the populations of three of the most populated states. Which graph shows the information with the least amount of distortion?
    A. B.
    C. D.
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