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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 the circle graph of this data, which two categories total 60%? |
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clothing and miscellaneous |
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clothing and housing |
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housing and miscellaneous |
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food and housing |
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Over 11 consecutive days, Jim did the following number of pushups. 7, 8, 10, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 17, 19, 33. Find the range of the data. |
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10 |
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Which type of graph is most appropriate to display the number of Presidents born in each state? |
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scatter plot |
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histogram |
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circle graph |
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bar graph |
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Five people donated to a charity. One donated $101 and the other four people donated $1 each. Which is not a misleading statement? |
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The mean, median, and mode do not adequately describe the data. |
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The mean is $21, and it adequately reflects the data. |
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The mode is $1, and it adequately reflects the data. |
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The median is $1, and it adequately reflectes the data. |
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The price for packs of bottled water at a grocery store over a nine week period was as follows: $3.25, $3.00, $3.50, $3.75, $3.25, $3.00, $2.50, $3.00, $2.75. Find the lower quartile rounded to the penny. |
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$2.75 |
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$3.00 |
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$2.88 |
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$3.38 |
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Which type of display is most appropriate to show the population of the United States over a series of ten-year intervals? |
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Circle Graph |
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Line Plot |
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Histogram |
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Scatter Plot |
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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? |
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No, Company A's price is lower than the mode, but higher than the prices of the 4 other companies. |
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No, Company A's price is equal to those of most of the other companies. |
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Yes, more companies charge $93 than any other price. |
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The frequency table shows the ages of the people attending a family reunion. Which histogram correctly and completely shows the data? |
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The histograms show the number of building above 400 feet in Minneapolis and Pittsburg. Which statement is true? |
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Minneapolis has more buildings between 500 and 699 feet tall than Pittsburg has. |
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Pittsburg has more buildings 400 feet and taller than Minneapolis has. |
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Pittsburg has more buildings 600 feet and taller than Minneapolis has. |
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Minneapolis has more buildings 500 feet or taller than Pittsburg has. |
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The circle graph compares the area of each of the Great Lakes to the total area of the Great Lakes. Which statement is not true? |
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The area of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie is a little less than of the total area of the Great Lakes. |
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The area of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie is about of the total area of the Great Lakes. |
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The area of Lake Superior, Lake Huron, and Lake Michigan is about of the total area of the Great Lakes. |
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The area of Lake Superior and Lake Huron is a little more than of the total area of the Great Lakes. |
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Which measures of central tendency are representative of the data? 15, 10, 13, 20, 152, 18, 8, 5, 13 |
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median and mode |
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mean, median , and mode |
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mean and median |
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mean and mode |
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Which measures of central tendency are representative of the data? 15, 2, 12, 5, 15, 8, 6, 10 |
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mean and median |
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mean, median, and mode |
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median and mode |
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mean and mode |
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Which box-and-whisker plot represents the data? 18, 27, 16, 29, 30, 42, 35, 34, 24, 21 |
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Which statement about the data represented by the box-and-whisker plot is not true? |
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The top half of the data is more spread out than the bottom half of the data. |
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Half of the data is between 50 and 56. |
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One fourth of the data is between 62 and 80. |
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The interquartile range is 6. |
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