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    3-15

    AP* Statistics Quiz B – Chapter 3 Name ________________________


    1. The students in a biology class kept a record of the height
    (in centimeters) of plants for a class experiment. 49 67 38 55 62
    54 36 41 56 43
    48 75 44 60 48
    52 48 53 59 32
    a. Sketch a histogram for these data. b. Find the mean and standard deviation of the
    plant heights.

    c. Is it appropriate to use the mean and d. Describe the distribution of plant heights.
    standard deviation to summarize these
    data? Explain.

    2. All students in a physical education class completed a basketball free-throw shooting event
    and the highest number of shots made was 32. The next day a student who had just
    transferred into the school completed the event, making 35 shots. Indicate whether adding the
    new student’s score to the rest of the data made each of these summary statistics increase,
    decrease, or stay about the same:

    a. mean

    b. median

    c. range

    d. IQR

    e. standard deviation

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    4-7

    AP* Statistics – Classwork Chapter 4


    Here are the weekly payrolls for two imaginary Mooseburgers McTofu
    restaurants, Mooseburgers and McTofu. Al $123 Ken $110
    1. Find the 5-number summaries. Boris $136 Latisha $115
    Connie $144 Maria $130
    Statistic M-burgers McTofu
    Dwight $150 Nate $100
    Min Ernie $110 Otto $120
    Q1 Francois $131 Pablo $146
    Gloria $140 Quentin $117
    Median
    Horace $160 Rosa $129
    Q3
    Isaac $120 Sally $360
    Max Juan $130 Ted $132
    Uta $107
    2. Create parallel boxplots. Label your graph clearly.

    3. Write a few sentences comparing the distributions.

    4. Which restaurant pays the higher average salary? ________________________


    5. Why is the mean salary misleading?

    6. At which restaurant would you rather work? Give a sound statistical justification for your
    decision.

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    4-11

    AP* Statistics Quiz A – Chapter 4 Name ________________________

    1. The five-number summary for midterm scores (number of points; the maximum possible
    score was 50 points) from an intro stats class is:
    Min Q1 Median Q3 Max
    16.5 32 39 43.5 48.5
    a. Would you expect the mean midterm score of all students who took the midterm to be
    higher or lower than the median? Explain.

    b. Based on the five-number summary, are any of the midterm scores outliers? Explain.

    2. The side-by-side boxplots show the cumulative college GPAs for sophomores, juniors, and
    seniors taking an intro stats course in Autumn 2003.

    a. Which class (sophomore, junior, or 4.50 Cumulative GPA


    senior) had the lowest cumulative college Autumn 2003
    GPA? What is the approximate value of
    Cumulative College GPA

    that GPA?
    3.75

    b. Which class has the highest median GPA, 3.00


    and what is that GPA?

    2.25

    c. Which class has the largest range for


    GPA, and what is it? 1.50
    Soph. Jun. Sen.

    d. Which class has the most symmetric set of GPAs? The most skewed set of GPAs?

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    4-12

    3. The following are histograms for the heights of 100 US women and the heights of 100
    European women:

    Histogram of USWmnCm Histogram of HtsforEUWmn


    16 20

    14

    12 15

    10
    Frequency

    Frequency
    8 10

    4 5

    0 0
    152 156 160 164 168 172 176 152 156 160 164 168 172 176 180
    USWmnCm HtsforEUWmn

    Compare the two distributions of the women’s heights. Be sure to talk about shape, center,
    and spread.

    4. While the scales histograms are the same, there is something that could be improved so that
    we could compare these two distributions better. Identify this improvement and explain why
    it would be better.

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    4-13

    AP* Statistics Quiz B – Chapter 4 Name_________________________

    1. The body temperature of students is taken each time a student goes to the nurse’s office.
    The five-number summary for the temperatures (in degrees Fahrenheit) of students on a
    particular day is:
    Min Q1 Median Q3 Max
    96.6º 97.85º 98.25º 98.6º 101.8º
    a. Would you expect the mean temperature of all students who visited the nurse’s
    office to be higher or lower than the median? Explain.

    b. After the data were picked up in the afternoon, three more students visited the
    nurse’s office with temperatures of 96.7º, 98.4º, and 99.2º. Were any of these
    students outliers? Explain.

    2. The boxplots show the age of people involved in accidents according to their role in the
    accident.
    a. Which role involved the youngest 100
    person, and what is the age? 90
    80
    70
    Age (years)

    60
    b. Which role had the lowest median 50
    age, and what is the age? 40
    30
    20
    10
    c. Which role had smallest range of
    0
    ages, and what is it?
    Cyclist Driver Pass. Pedest.
    ROLE

    d. Which role had the largest IQR of ages, and what is it?

    e. Which role generally involves the oldest people? Explain.

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    3. One thousand students from a local university were


    sampled to gather information such as gender, high 60
    M
    school GPA, college GPA, and total SAT scores. The 30

    Gender
    Count
    results were used to create histograms displaying high 0
    school grade point averages (GPA’s) for both males 60
    and females. Compare the grade distribution of males F
    30
    and females.
    1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0
    HighSchoolGPA

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