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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 circle graph best represents the budget data? |
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Which of the following describes the best use of the circle graph? |
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It shows only the parts of the data that add to 50%. |
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It is a comparison graph that shows one value compared to a second value. |
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It compares parts of a set of data to the whole set. |
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It represents frequency. |
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The heights in inches of 10 senior boys are 64, 65, 66, 68, 71, 72, 73, 73, 73, and 74. Find the mean of the heights. |
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69.9 in. |
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69.7 in. |
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70.0 in. |
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69.8 in. |
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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 interquartile range. |
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33 |
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10 |
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7 |
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14 |
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Which types of display is most appropriate for showing the data for coffee prices with ratings of V for very good, and F for fair? |
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line plot |
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circle graph |
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histogram |
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scatter plot |
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In statistics ______. |
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graphs cannot be used to mislead |
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meaasures of central tendency can be used to mislead |
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data is always presented in a fair and unbiased manner |
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leaving values out of data analysis makes the data free of bias |
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Use the data set {1, 7, 3, 5, 3, 6, 2, 4, 3, 2}. Find the median. |
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3 |
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3.5 |
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2.5 |
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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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$2.88 |
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$3.38 |
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$3.00 |
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Which type of display is most appropriate to show the percentages of each expense for a company's annual report? |
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Circle Graph |
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Scatter Plot |
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Bar Graph |
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Histogram |
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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 histogram shows the record high temperatures for the fifty states. How many states have a record high temperature no less than 120°F? |
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10 states |
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7 states |
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3 states |
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22 states |
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Which box-and-whisker plot represents the data? 32, 30, 28, 65, 25, 50, 27, 25, 41, 38 |
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Which statement about the data represented by the box-and-whisker plot is not true? |
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The range of the data is 26. |
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The data has one outlier. |
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Half of the data is between 36 and 48. |
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The data in the first quartile is more spread out than the data in the other quartiles. |
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The graphs show the same information about the average cost of a house in Anaheim, California, and Miami, Florida. Which graph shows the information with the least amount of distortion? |
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