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The number of calories for a serving of different brands of potato chips and tortilla chips is shown in the back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot below. Which statement is correct? |
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Potato chips and tortilla chips both have the same mean number of calories. |
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Most of the potato chip brands have less than 150 calories per serving. |
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The data for potato chips and the data for tortilla chips have the same mode(s). |
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Most of the tortilla chip brands have less than 150 calories per serving. |
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What is the difference between the highest and the lowest values? |
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80 |
B. |
100 |
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C. |
75 |
D. |
84 |
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Find the median of {55, 21, 47.4, 69, 71}. |
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71 |
B. |
47.4 |
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21 |
D. |
55 |
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You have scores of 62, 75, and 90 on three of your history exams. What do you need to get on your fourth exam for a mean of 80? |
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80 |
B. |
100 |
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C. |
97 |
D. |
93 |
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The median is the _________ of a set of numbers. |
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middle number |
B. |
most frequent |
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C. |
highest number |
D. |
average |
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6. |
Make a flowchart for the expression. . |
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A. |
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B. |
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D. |
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7. |
Which relationship would most likely have a negative correlation? |
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A person's age, and the address of the person. |
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A person's height and the person's shoe size. |
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The number of pizzas ordered, and the total price of the bill. |
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The number of miles driven, and the number of gallons of gas in the car. |
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8. |
Every fifth person that comes out of a library is asked whether they prefer to read a book or watch a movie. Is this biased or unbiased and why? |
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unbiased, because the location is not important |
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unbiased, because they are using a systematic random sample |
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biased, because a library loans out primarily books |
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biased, because the sample is not representative of everyone in the library |
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What are the dimensions of the matrix ? |
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A. |
6 |
B. |
2 × 3 |
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C. |
3 × 2 |
D. |
4 × 2 |
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Find . |
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impossible |
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B. |
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C. |
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D. |
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Which of the following frequencies occurs most often? |
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A. |
14 |
B. |
8 |
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C. |
12 |
D. |
10 |
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12. |
How many measurement classes are represented on the histogram? |
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A. |
9 |
B. |
14 |
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C. |
70 |
D. |
44 |
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A baseball owner is trying to convince people that he is spending too much on his players. He is paying 10 of them $1 million, 8 of them $2 million, and 3 of them $15 million. To support his case, which measure of central tendency should he use? |
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standard deviation |
B. |
mean |
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C. |
mode |
D. |
median |
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14. |
Which measure of variation does not depend on the mean? |
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variance |
B. |
range |
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C. |
standard deviation |
D. |
mode |
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Everyone at the stadium is eligible for a drawing at the end of the night. If everyone was given a number, and 10 winners are announced, what kind of sampling is represented? |
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Systematic Sampling |
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Convenience Sampling |
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Cluster Sampling |
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Random Sampling |
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Find the mode of {2, 4, 14, 2, 12, 10, 4, 14, 2}. |
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No mode |
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14 |
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C. |
4 |
D. |
2 |
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17. |
Which interval has the most values? |
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50-60 |
B. |
60-70 |
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C. |
80-90 |
D. |
70-80 |
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18. |
During the month that had three days of rain, how many had above-average temperatures? |
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5 |
B. |
2 |
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C. |
8 |
D. |
3 |
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19. |
Which relationship will most likely have a positive correlation? |
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Battery power of a flashlight, and continued use of the flashlight. |
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The number of movie tickets sold and the amount of popcorn sold. |
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Rising temperatures and ski equipment sales. |
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A person's height and a person's eye color. |
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20. |
Find the interquartile range of {61, 65, 65, 66, 72, 75, 77, 79, 81, 85, 89, 92, 99}. |
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25 |
B. |
21.5 |
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C. |
77 |
D. |
35 |
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