Name: _______________________________________ Period: _______

Date: ______________________ Statistics Review

Read each question then choose the best answer and write it in the blank provided. 1. _______ The manager of a hotel wants to know how often his customers rent boats at a nearby lake. Which sampling method will give valid results? A) B) C) D) He asks every tenth customer who checks into the hotel. He posts a question on the hotels Web site. He randomly surveys households in the neighborhood. He asks every customer in the hotel lobby at noon.

2. _______ Which box plot represents the data set: 8, 17, 13, 15, 18, 18, 25, 20, and 18?

3. _______ The numbers of monthly minutes Roger used on his cell phone for the last eight months are shown below.

What is the range of this data? A) 220 minutes B) 508.75 minutes C) 572.5 minutes D) 550 minutes

4. _______ Which of the following in an appropriate display to show the heights of seventh graders arranged by intervals? A) B) C) D) bar graph line graph circle graph histogram

5. _______ A survey found that 6 out of 8 students own a pet. If there are 320 students in a school, what is a reasonable prediction for the number of students who own a pet? A) B) C) D) 240 80 24 8

6. _______ Which type of data display would be best for showing how the height of a plant changes each week during a science experiment? A) B) C) D) line plot line graph bar graph stem-and-leaf plot

7. _______ The bar graph compares the number of students that received a grade of an A, B, C, or D in Ms. Charlottes class. Which statement best tells why this graph could be misleading?

A) The intervals on the vertical axis are not equal. B) The graph title is misleading. C) The intervals on the vertical axis make it appear that the number of students that received each grade are nearly the same. D) The graph should be a line graph.

8. _______ The double line plot shows the number of students who attended the home games of the baseball team for two recent seasons.

Which of the following statements is not true? A) B) C) D) The attendance for 2009 was more varied. The attendance for 2010 was more consistent. The attendance for 2009 peaked at 23 students. The attendance for 2010 ranged from 20 to 27.

Determine whether each sample is considered to be biased or unbiased. Write your answer on the line provided.

9. A random sample of people at a mall shows that 22 prefer to take a family trip by car, 18 prefer to travel by plane, and 4 prefer to travel by bus. _________________________

10. To evaluate the quality of their product, a manufacturer of cell phones checks every 50 th phone off the assembly line. Out of 200 phones tested, 4 are defective. The manager concludes that about 2% of the cell phones produced will be defective. ________________

11. A store manager sends an e-mail survey to customers who have registered at the stores Web site. _______________________________

Use the data set below to answer questions 12 and 13.

{3, 7, 4, 2, 31, 5, 4}
12. What are the mean, median, and mode of the data? Show your work.

Mean = _____________ Median = ____________ Mode = _____________

13. In the above data set, which measure best describes the set of data: mean, median, or mode? Explain your reasoning. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________

Use the box-and-whisker plot of scores to answer questions 14 19 .

14. What is the median? _______ 16. What is the lower quartile? _______ 18. What is the lower value? _______

15. What is the upper quartile? _______ 17. What is the upper value? _______ 19. What is the interquartile range? _______

Use the data below for question 20. 20. The monthly income teenagers earn from babysitting is shown below. Display the data in a box-and-whisker plot.

36 72 20 42 53 18 25 41 67 33 25