Identify The Choice That Best Completes The Statement or Answers The Question

Name: ______________________ Class: __________________
Unit 3 Extra Credit

Multiple Choice:
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
______ 1. A floral delivery company conducts a study to measure the effect of worker
experience on productivity. Tell whether the scatter plot appears to have a linear or
non-linear pattern of association. Describe any clustering and identify outliers.
y
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70
Bouquets Made 60
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40
30
20
10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 x
Days of Experience
(a) The pattern of association appears to be linear.
There appears to be clustering of the data points at 1 and 2 days. After that, the results
become less clustered.
There do not appear to be any outliers.
(b) The pattern of association appears to be non-linear.
There appears to be clustering of the data points at 6 and 7 days. Before that, the
results are less clustered.
There do not appear to be any outliers.
(c) The pattern of association appears to be non-linear.
The point near (6, 75) appears to be an outlier.
(d) The pattern of association appears to be linear.
The point near (6, 75) appears to be an outlier.
______ 2. 25 males were selected at random from a database to determine a leadership score.
Which of the following best describes the distribution of the data?
1
(a) The distribution is symmetric.
(b) The distribution is skewed with the tail to the left.
(c) The distribution is skewed with the tail to the right.
(d) The distribution is uniform.
______ 3 . After performing analyses on a set of data, Jackie examined the scatter plot of the
residual values for each analysis. Which scatter plot indicates the best linear fit for the data?
______ 4. A movie theater recorded the number of tickets sold daily for a popular movie during the
month of June. The box-and-whisker plot shown below represents the data for the number of
tickets sold, in hundreds.
Which conclusion can be made using this plot?

(a) The second quartile is 600.
(b) The mean of the attendance is 400.
(c) The range of the attendance is 300 to 600.
(d) Twenty-five percent of the attendance is between 300 and 400
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______ 6. What 5-year interval of ages represented in the 2010 histogram of the Kenyan age
distribution has the most people?
(a) 0-5 years old (c) 15-20 years old

(b) 50-55 years old (d) 45-50 years old
______ 7. The table shows the number of first, second, and third place finishes by members of
two teams at a track meet. Of the Panthers, what is the relative frequency who placed
first?
(a) 0.2 (c) 0.7

(b) 0.3 (d) 0.8
______ 8. Which relationship can best be described as causal?
(a) height and intelligence

(b) number of correct answers on a test and test score
(c) shoe size and running speed
(d) number of students in a class and number of students with brown hair
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______ 9. A sample of 12 snowboard prices (in dollars) is shown below.
345 375 356 360 405 350 386 343 402 395 370 392
What is the standard deviation to the nearest hundredth?

(a) 22.49 (c) 373.25
(b) 21.53 (d) 4,479
______ 10. The freshman class held a canned food drive for 12 weeks. The results are
summarized in the table below.
Which number represents the interquartile range of the number of cans of food collected?
(a) 30.5 (c) 29.5

(b) 59 (d) 6
Short Answer:
11. The table shows the relationship between the time a student spends working out each
week and his percent improvement on race times.
Hours Spent Working Out 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

Percent Improvement 18 18 32 27 31 39 37
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a) Make a scatter plot for the data.
Percent
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36
32
28
24
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12
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 Hours
b) Use the statistical features of your calculator to construct a scatter plot. Write a
regression equation. Round all values to the nearest hundredth. Calculate and
interpret the correlation coefficient.
c) Use your equation to predict the number of hours the student would be expected to
work out if his percent improvement is 50% (round to the nearest hour).
12. The table below shows the numbers of 72, 7th and 8th-grade students who participated in
different sports. Some data is missing from the table.
a. Complete the following frequency table:
Participation in Sports
Tennis Soccer Swimming Total
7th Grade 15 11 34
8th Grade 17 12
Total 32 20
b. How many 7th graders participate in swimming?
c. What fraction of all the students participate in soccer?
d. What is the percentage of students who participate in tennis are in the 8th grade?

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Unit 3 Extra Credit

Which of the following best describes the distribution of the data?

Which conclusion can be made using this plot?

(a) 0-5 years old (c) 15-20 years old

(a) 0.2 (c) 0.7

______ 8. Which relationship can best be described as causal?

(a) height and intelligence

What is the standard deviation to the nearest hundredth?

(a) 30.5 (c) 29.5

Hours Spent Working Out 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

a. Complete the following frequency table:

b. How many 7th graders participate in swimming?

c. What fraction of all the students participate in soccer?

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