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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. Which two categories of the Carpenters' expenses would be represented by sectors of the same size in a circle graph? |
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clothing and miscellaneous |
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food and clothing |
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food and miscellaneous |
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food and housing |
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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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bar graph |
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scatter plot |
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circle graph |
D. |
histogram |
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Which type of display is most appropriate for showing scores on a standardized exam in a particular city? |
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line plot |
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bar graph |
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histogram |
D. |
scatter plot |
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The table shows the percent of each genre of book Stacy has read. If she made a circle graph of this data, which genre's section would have an angle measure of about 61°? |
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Romance |
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Non-fiction |
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Horror |
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Science Fiction |
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The data are ages of children in months. Find the mean age. |
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13.52 months |
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12 months |
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11.75 months |
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10.25 months |
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The data are ages of children in months. Find the median age. |
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12 months |
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11 months |
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14 months |
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18 months |
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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 interquartile range. |
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$1.50 |
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$1.25 |
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$0.75 |
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$0.50 |
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The histogram shows the record high temperatures for the fifty states. How many states have a record high temperature less than 115°F? |
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11 states |
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28 states |
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40 states |
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17 states |
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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 500 feet or taller than Pittsburg has. |
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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 600 feet and taller than Minneapolis has. |
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Pittsburg has more buildings 400 feet and taller than Minneapolis has. |
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Find all outliers for the data.
28, 25, 34, 44, 31, 2, 22, 23, 3, 24, 30 |
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2 |
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2 and 3 |
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2 and 44 |
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44 |
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Which box-and-whisker plot represents the data?
51, 33, 50, 33, 33, 44, 36, 42 |
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Which box-and-whisker plot represents the data?
98, 77, 85, 88, 82, 83, 87 |
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The graphs show the same information about the number of species at two major zoos. Which graph shows the information with the least amount of distortion? |
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The amounts of the commissions of the sales associates for a company are listed below. Which average would the company use to encourage a new person to sell for the company?
$24,000, $24,000, $31,000, $33,000, $35,000, $65,000, $65,000, $71,000 |
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mean |
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range |
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median |
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mode |
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