Center, spread, and shape of distributions
1.
The number of telephone lines in each country in Central America and the Carribean is shown above in a dot plot. The number of telephone lines in each country has been rounded to the nearest 250 thousand. According to the dot plot, what is the median number of telephone lines (in thousands)?
Correct answer: 0 Difficulty level: 2 2.
In the dot plot above, the length of the coastline of each country in South America is shown in thousands of kilometers (1000-km), rounded to the nearest thousand kilometers. According to the dot plot, what is the mean length of coastline, in thousands of kilometers?
Correct answer: 2 Difficulty level: 2
3.
During a five-day period, Marta served a different number of customers at her flower shop each day. The mean number of daily customers served during this period was 17. In the following month, during the same five-day period, she served 16 customers for four of the days, but on the fifth day, she served 25 customers. What is the difference between the means of the number of customers she served during the two five-day periods?
A. ** B. ** C. **
The two means are equal. Correct answer: A Difficulty level: 2 4.
The table above shows the annual average per pupil educational expenditures in the United States from 2008 through 2012. What is the range of the per pupil expenditures?
Correct answer: 641 Difficulty level: 2 5.
The box plot above summarizes the resting heart rates, in beats per minute, of the members at a gym. What is the range of resting heart rates?
A. 16 beats per minute B. 31 beats per minute C. 62 beats per minute D. 70 beats per minute
Correct answer: C Difficulty level: 2 6.
The box-and-whisker plot above shows the average outdoor temperature of a North American City
at noon, in degrees Fahrenheit, for each month of the year. What is the range of the temperatures?
A. 17 B. 27 C. 61 D. 111
Correct answer: C Difficulty level: 2 7.
A census was taken in 11 African countries. For each country, the amount of the population that had access to water from the water supply industry **puted and recorded to the nearest 5 percent. This amount was expressed as a percentage of the total population and plotted above. According to the dot plot, what is the range of these percentages?
Percentage of population supplied by water supply industry
Correct answer: 70 Difficulty level: 2 8.
The number of employees in each industry in Seattle was recorded and rounded to the nearest 10 thousand. The results are displayed in the dot plot above. According to the dot plot, what is the median number of employees, in thousands?
Correct answer: 20 Difficulty level: 2
9.
Data was taken on carpooling in Tallahassee, Florida. For each person's **mute, the number of people in the car was recorded. The results are summarized in the bar graph at left. What is the median number of people in the car?
Correct answer: 1 Difficulty level: 2 10.
Daily rainfall in centimeters was recorded over a 41-year period in Turramurra. For each year, the day with the most rain in centimeters was plotted above according to its amount of rainfall to the nearest 2 centimeters. According to the dot plot, what is the maximum amount of rainfall that was ever recorded in a single day in Turramurra, in centimeters?
Correct answer: 38 Difficulty level: 2 11.
The annual natural gas production of the Middle Eastern countries is recorded in the dot plot above. Each value is rounded to the nearest 10 billion cubic meters. According to the dot plot,
what is the median annual natural gas production, in billions of cubic meters?
Correct answer: 10 Difficulty level: 2 12.
A linguistics library contains several archives of language samples. The table above gives the number of distinct languages referenced in each archive. What is the range of numbers of distinct languages referenced?
Correct answer: 255 Difficulty level: 2 13.
On a message board, participants listed words whose letters are all in alphabetical order, such as \the median letter count of the words they listed?