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Problem-Solving and Data Analysis - One-variable data

The document contains a series of questions related to statistical concepts such as median, mean, and frequency distributions across various data sets. It includes multiple-choice questions that require the reader to analyze data presented in tables, box plots, and dot plots to determine statistical measures. The questions cover a range of topics including comparisons of means, medians, and the effects of data changes on these measures.

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Problem-Solving and Data Analysis - One-variable data

The document contains a series of questions related to statistical concepts such as median, mean, and frequency distributions across various data sets. It includes multiple-choice questions that require the reader to analyze data presented in tables, box plots, and dot plots to determine statistical measures. The questions cover a range of topics including comparisons of means, medians, and the effects of data changes on these measures.

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, , , , , , , What is the median of the data set shown?

A.

B.

C.

D.
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What is the median of the seven


data values shown?

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 9
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The box plots summarize the masses, in kilograms, of two groups of gazelles. Based on the box plots, which of the
following statements must be true?

A. The mean mass of group 1 is greater than the mean mass of group 2.

B. The mean mass of group 1 is less than the mean mass of group 2.

C. The median mass of group 1 is greater than the median mass of group 2.

D. The median mass of group 1 is less than the median mass of group 2.
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Ages of 20 Students Enrolled in a College Class

Age Frequency

18 6

19 5

20 4

21 2

22 1

23 1

30 1

The table above shows the distribution of ages of the 20 students enrolled in a
college class. Which of the following gives the correct order of the mean,
median, and mode of the ages?

A. mode < median < mean

B. mode < mean < median

C. median < mode < mean


D. mean < mode < median
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, , , , , , , , Which frequency table correctly represents the data listed?

Number Frequency
A.

Number Frequency
B.

Number Frequency
C.
Number Frequency
D.
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Data value Frequency

The frequency table summarizes the data values in a data set. What is the maximum data value in the data set?
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Data set A and data set B each contain 5 numbers. If the mean of data set A is
equal to the mean of data set B, what is the value of x ?

A. 77

B. 85

C. 86

D. 95
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For a school fund-raiser, 10 students sold a total of 90 boxes of cookies. Which


of the following can be calculated from this information?

A. The average number of boxes sold per student

B. The median number of boxes sold per student

C. The greatest number of boxes sold by one student

D. The least number of boxes sold by one student


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The results of two independent surveys are shown in the table below.
Men's Height
Group Sample size Mean (centimeters) Standard deviation (centimeters)

A 2,500 186 12.5

B 2,500 186 19.1

Which statement is true based on the table?

A. The Group A data set was identical to the Group B data set.

B. Group B contained the tallest participant.

C. The heights of the men in Group B had a larger spread than the heights of the men in Group A.

D. The median height of Group B is larger than the median height of Group A.
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The bar graph shows the distribution of the number of walnuts per container for containers at a grocery store.

8
7
6
Frequency

5
4
3
2
1
0
75 76 77 78
Number of walnuts per container

How many of these containers of walnuts contain exactly walnuts?

A.

B.

C.
D.
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15, 14, 18, 17, x

The mean and the median of the five numbers above are equal. Which of the
following is NOT a possible value of x ?

A. 6

B. 11

C. 16

D. 21
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Data set A consists of positive integers less than . The list shown gives of the integers from data set A.
, , , , , , , ,
The mean of these integers is . If the mean of data set A is an integer that is greater than , what is the value of the
largest integer from data set A?
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Value Data set A frequency Data set B frequency

Data set A and data set B each consist of values. The table shows the frequencies of the values for each data set.
Which of the following statements best compares the means of the two data sets?

A. The mean of data set A is greater than the mean of data set B.

B. The mean of data set A is less than the mean of data set B.

C. The mean of data set A is equal to the mean of data set B.

D. There is not enough information to compare the means of the data sets.
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A data set of 27 different numbers has a mean of 33 and a median of 33. A new
data set is created by adding 7 to each number in the original data set that is
greater than the median and subtracting 7 from each number in the original data
set that is less than the median. Which of the following measures does NOT
have the same value in both the original and new data sets?

A. Median

B. Mean

C. Sum of the numbers

D. Standard deviation
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Five Eretmochelys imbricata, a type of sea turtle, each have a nest. The table shows an original data set of the number of
eggs that each turtle laid in its nest.

Nest Number of eggs

E
A sixth nest with eggs is added to create a new data set. Which of the following correctly compares the means of
the two data sets?

A. The mean of the original data set is greater than the mean of the new data set.

B. The mean of the original data set is less than the mean of the new data set.

C. The means of both data sets are equal.

D. There is not enough information to compare the means.


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, , , , , , , , What is the median of the data shown?


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The two box plots show the distribution of number of books read over the summer by the students in two different
English classes. What is the positive difference between the ranges of number of books read over the summer for the
two classes?
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International Tourist
Arrivals, in millions
Country 2012 2013

France 83.0 84.7

United
66.7 69.8
States

Spain 57.5 60.7

China 57.7 55.7

Italy 46.4 47.7

Turkey 35.7 37.8

Germany 30.4 31.5

United
26.3 32.2
Kingdom

Russia 24.7 28.4


The table above shows the number of international tourist arrivals, rounded to
the nearest tenth of a million, to the top nine tourist destinations in both 2012
and 2013. Based on the information given in the table, how much greater, in
millions, was the median number of international tourist arrivals to the top nine
tourist destinations in 2013 than the median number in 2012, to the nearest
tenth of a million?
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The dot plots represent the distributions of values in data sets A and B.

Which of the following statements must be true?


The median of data set A is equal to the median of data set B.
The standard deviation of data set A is equal to the standard deviation of data set B.

A. I only

B. II only

C. I and II

D. Neither I nor II
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The table shown summarizes the number of employees at each of the restaurants in a town.

Number of employees Number of restaurants

to

to

to

to

to
Which of the following could be the median number of employees for the restaurants in this town?

A.

B.

C.

D.
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Two data sets of integers each are summarized in the histograms shown. For each of the histograms, the first interval
represents the frequency of integers greater than or equal to , but less than . The second interval represents the
frequency of integers greater than or equal to , but less than , and so on. What is the smallest possible difference
between the mean of data set A and the mean of data set B?

A.

B.

C.
D.
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, , , , What is the mean of the data shown?

A.

B.

C.

D.
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Value Frequency

1 a

2 2a

3 3a

4 2a

5 a

The frequency distribution above summarizes a set of data, where a is a positive


integer. How much greater is the mean of the set of data than the median?

A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3
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Two different teams consisting of 10 members each ran in a race. Each member’s completion time of the race was
recorded. The mean of the completion times for each team was calculated and is shown below.
Team A: 3.41 minutes
Team B: 3.79 minutes

Which of the following MUST be true?


Every member of team A completed the race in less time than any member of team B.
The median time it took the members of team B to complete the race is greater than the median time it took the
members of team A to complete the race.
There is at least one member of team B who took more time to complete the race than some member of team A.

A. III only

B. I and III only

C. II and III only

D. I, II, and III


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The mean score of 8 players in a basketball game was 14.5 points. If the highest
individual score is removed, the mean score of the remaining 7 players becomes
12 points. What was the highest score?

A. 20

B. 24

C. 32

D. 36
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The list gives the mass, in grams, of alpine marmots. ; ; ; ;


What is the mean mass, in grams, of these alpine marmots?
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The dot plot represents a data set of the number of bursts for eruptions of a steam vent. If an additional eruption with
bursts is added to this data set to create a new data set of eruptions, which of the following measures will be
greater for the new data set than for the original data set?
The median number of bursts The mean number of bursts

A. I and II

B. I only

C. II only

D. Neither I nor II
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Station 1 Station 2 Station 3 Station 4 Station 5

$3.699 $3.609 $3.729 $3.679 $3.729

In the table above, Melissa recorded the price of one gallon of regular gas from
five different local gas stations on the same day. What is the median of the gas
prices Melissa recorded?

A. $3.679

B. $3.689

C. $3.699

D. $3.729
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For which of the following data sets is the mean


greater than the median?

A. 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

B. 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80

C. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512

D. 7, 107, 107, 207, 207, 207, 307, 307, 307


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The table shows the frequency of values in a data set.

Value Frequency

What is the minimum value of the data set?


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Each of the dot plots shown represents the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for two classes, class A and
class B. Which statement best compares the standard deviations of the numbers of glue sticks brought in by each
student for these two classes?

The standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for class A is less than the standard
A. deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for class B.

The standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for class A is equal to the standard
B. deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for class B.

The standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for class A is greater than the
C. standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for class B.

D. There is not enough information to compare these standard deviations.


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A list of data values is shown. , , , , , , , , , What is the mean of these data?


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, , , , , , Which of the following lists represents a data set that has the same median as the data set shown?

A. , , , , ,

B. , , , , ,

C. , , , , ,

D. , , , , ,
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The table below shows the high and low temperatures in Houston, Texas, during a five-day period.

What was the mean low temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, during


the five-day period?

A. 48.8

B. 49

C. 59

D. 59.1
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Which of the following statements correctly compares the


means of data set A and data set B?

A. The mean of each data set is 2.

B. The mean of each data set is 4.

C. The mean of data set A is less than the mean of data set B.

D. The mean of data set A is greater than the mean of data set B.
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Each of the following frequency tables represents a data set. Which data set has the greatest mean?

Value Frequency
A.

Value Frequency
B.

Value Frequency
C.
Value Frequency
D.
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, , , , , , What is the range of the scores shown?


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Each value in the data set shown represents the height, in centimeters, of a plant. , , , , , , , , ,
What is the mean height, in centimeters, of these plants?
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The number of acres of useful timberland in 13 counties in California is


summarized in the box plot above. Which of the following is closest to the
median number of acres?

A. 4,399

B. 7,067

C. 8,831

D. 10,595
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The mean amount of time that the 20 employees of a construction company


have worked for the company is 6.7 years. After one of the employees leaves the
company, the mean amount of time that the remaining employees have worked
for the company is reduced to 6.25 years. How many years did the employee
who left the company work for the company?

A. 0.45

B. 2.30

C. 9.00

D. 15.25
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A study was conducted on the production rates for a company that produces tractor wheels. The table below shows the
number of wheels made during 11 consecutive one-hour production periods.

Number
One- of
hour wheels
period made

A 24

B 24

C 21

D 21

E 21

F 19

G 24

H 24

I 19

J 22
Number
One- of
hour wheels
period made

K 23

What is the range of the number of wheels made for the 11 one-hour periods?

A. 5.5

B. 5.0

C. 4.5

D. 4.0
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The weights, in pounds, for 15 horses in a stable were reported, and the mean,
median, range, and standard deviation for the data were found. The horse with
the lowest reported weight was found to actually weigh 10 pounds less than its
reported weight. What value remains unchanged if the four values are reported
using the corrected weight?

A. Mean

B. Median

C. Range

D. Standard deviation
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, , , , , , , , What is the median of the data shown?

A.

B.

C.

D.
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Which of the following statements about the means and medians


of data set A and data set B is true?

A. Only the means are different.

B. Only the medians are different.

C. Both the means and the medians are different.

D. Neither the means nor the medians are different.


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Response Frequency

Once a week or more

Two or three times a month

About once a month

A few times a year

Almost never

Never

Total
The table gives the results of a survey of people who were asked how often they see a movie in a theater. How many
people responded either “never” or “almost never”?

A.

B.

C.

D.
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The dot plot represents the values in data set A. Data set B is created by adding to each of the values in data set A.
Which of the following correctly compares the medians and the ranges of data sets A and B?

The median of data set B is equal to the median of data set A, and the range of data set B is equal to the range of
A. data set A.

The median of data set B is equal to the median of data set A, and the range of data set B is greater than the range of
B. data set A.

The median of data set B is greater than the median of data set A, and the range of data set B is equal to the range of
C. data set A.

The median of data set B is greater than the median of data set A, and the range of data set B is greater than the
D. range of data set A.
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Data set X: , , , Data set Y: , , , ,


The lists give the values in data sets X and Y. Which statement correctly compares the mean of data set X and the mean
of data set Y?

A. The mean of data set X is greater than the mean of data set Y.

B. The mean of data set X is less than the mean of data set Y.

C. The means of data set X and data set Y are equal.

D. There is not enough information to compare the means.


ID: 820d7a73

The bar graph shows the distribution of cans collected by different groups for a food drive. How many cans were
collected by group ?
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20
18
Number of volunteers

16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
A B C D
Gift

In April, there were volunteers in a cleanup project. Each volunteer was asked to choose a small gift labeled A, B, C, or
D. The bar graph shows the number of volunteers who chose each gift. How many volunteers chose gift C?

A.
B.

C.

D.
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If a is the mean and b is the median of nine consecutive


integers, what is the value of ?

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