Data Collection and Representation Quiz

Which of the following is a good question that requires collecting data?

• What is the capital of Virginia?

• How many students in our class have a pet?

• Who is the president of the United States?

• What color is the sky?

You want to find out which fruit is most popular in your class. What question should you ask your classmates?

• What is your favorite fruit?

• How old are you?

• Do you like to read books?

• What is your favorite color?

If you want to know how many students walk, ride the bus, or get a ride to school, what data do you need to collect?

• The number of students in each transportation group

• The names of all the students

• The color of the school bus

• The time school starts

You want to find out which sport is most popular in your class. Which method could you use to collect the data?

• Ask each student and record their answer in a tally chart

• Guess the answer

• Read about sports in a book

• Watch a sports game on TV

Look at the pictograph below. Each 🍎 represents 2 students. | Fruit | Number of Students | |---------|-------------------| | Apples | 🍎🍎🍎 | | Bananas | 🍎🍎 | | Oranges | 🍎🍎🍎🍎 | How many students chose oranges as their favorite fruit?

• 4

• 6

• 8

• 2

Which of the following is needed to make a pictograph?

• A title, labeled categories, and a key

• Only a list of numbers

• A paragraph about the data

• A map

Look at the bar graph below showing the number of books read by students in one week. | Number of Books | Number of Students | |-----------------|-------------------| | 1 | ████ (4) | | 2 | ██████ (6) | | 3 | ███ (3) | | 4 | █████ (5) | What is the title of this bar graph?

• Number of Books Read by Students in One Week

• Favorite Colors

• Types of Pets

• Days of the Week

If you are making a bar graph with the following data: 2, 4, 6, 8, which scale would be appropriate to use for the y-axis?

• 1

• 2

• 5

• 10

Look at the pictograph below. Each 🏀 represents 5 students. | Sport | Number of Students | |---------|-------------------| | Soccer | 🏀🏀🏀 | | Basketball | 🏀🏀 | | Baseball | 🏀🏀🏀🏀 | How many students chose baseball as their favorite sport?

• 10

• 15

• 20

• 25

Which of the following is NOT a correct way to collect data for a bar graph?

• Conducting a poll

• Making observations

• Guessing the answers

• Using tally marks