Intro to Stats Displaying Data

Edgar records the high temperature in

his town for 8 days.

What is the most common temperature?

_____ °C

• 2

• 5

• 6

• 8

Edgar records the high temperature in

his town for 8 days.

What percent of the days have a

temperature less than 7°C?

%

• 75%

• 25%

• 50%

• 100%

The restaurant manager makes a list of

how many minutes customers wait for

their orders to arrive to their tables.

15, 18, 14, 22, 30, 14, 20, 17, 18, 25,

21, 32

Complete the frequency table for the

data the manager collects.

• 3

  2

  1

  5

  2

• 4

  2

  3

  1

  1

• 2

  4

  3

  1

  2

• 2

  5

  3

  2

  1

The restaurant manager makes a list of

how many minutes customers wait for

their orders to arrive to their tables.

15, 18, 14, 22, 30, 14, 20, 17, 18, 25,

21, 32

Complete the frequency table for the

data the manager collects.

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Ms. Carson assigns her students a book to read. She records data about some books in the table.

What attribute is being measured in the data?

• the length of the book, in chapters

• the length of the book, in pages

• the number of books available

• the title of the book

Carin records the number of ribbons she wins at gymnastics meets during the year.

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Which of the following best measures the average distance that a data value lies away from the mean?

• mean

• standard deviation

• median

• range

Which of the following data sets would have the largest standard deviation?

• {3, 3, 4, 5, 5}

• {72, 73, 74, 75, 76}

• {2, 8,18, 26, 35}

• {8,10,12,14,16}

A storeowner kept a tally of the sizes of suits purchased in her store. Which measure of central tendency should the storeowner use to describe the average suit sold?

• mean

• median

• mode

Thomas is trying to determine the average height of high school male students. Because he is on the basketball team, he uses the heights of the 14 players on the team, which are given below in inches. Calculate the mean

• 74.6

• 1044

• 6.5

• 74.1