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Unit 4A Describing Data

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Name: _________________________________________________________________ Date: _____________________________

1. What are the 5 values needed to make a box-and-whisker plot?

2. The table shows the sizes, in square feet, of a sample of eight houses from a neighborhood. House
5 is a renovated warehouse. What is the range of the sizes of the house?
House

Size

1005

1880

2304

789

15,500

1580

177

255

3. Anna surveys 25 of her fellow juniors and records the quiz grades for each of them. She wants to
display the information in a way that her friends can see the shape of the distribution but NOT each
individual grade.
Which would be the BEST display for her to use to report the results to her class?
A. Box Plot

B. Histogram

C. Dot Plot

Mr. Smith recorded the pulse rates for each of the

students in his classes after the students had climbed a
set of stairs. He displayed the results, by class, using
the box plots shown.
4. Which class had the lowest median?

5. Which class had the highest IQR?

6. Which is the best description of the distribution?

7. An office manager is assigned the task of distributing new

parking spaces to the employees in his building. In order to
do so, he first takes data on the distance from parking space

D. Pie Graph

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to office for five of the employees and the number of minutes it takes each to walk to their
office. The data is recorded below:
Time
(minutes)
Distance

18

14

30

20

150

100

50

204

165

According to this
data, if it takes a person 30 minutes to get to his/her desk, then how far do they
park from
their place of employment?

8. Using the following box and whiskers plot.

What is the value of Q1?

9.

Last weeks sales for ABC Store are recorded

in the following dot plot, which two sales prices had 4 sales last week?

10. According to the following frequency chart of math test grades, in which interval did the most
students score?
Scores
Frequency
60-69
1
70-79
18

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80-89
90-99
100+

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9
11
7

Use the following dot plot to answers questions 11 & 12.

11. How many pieces of data are in the set?

12. What is the mode of the scores?

13. Which of the following set of numbers has the least mean absolute deviation (MAD)?
0, 3, 7, 1, 10, 9, 8
12, 11, 7, 11, 8, 9, 12

14. On the following frequency chart, in which interval does the median fall?
Grades
K-3
4-7
8-11

Frequency
15
10
7

15. The test scores for 10 students in Ms. Smiths class were 68, 72, 76, 85, 88, 86, 75, 92, 97, 89.
Make a frequency table to reflect this data.

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16. What does the box of the box and whiskers plot represent?

17. According the following frequency chart, how many people visited the Zoo last week?
Ages
0-9
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-49

Frequency
0
2
5
0
2

18. Which of the following statements accurately describes the two data sets below.
Data Set A: {7, 2, 6, 9, 1, 3}
Data Set B: {9, 6, 6, 4, 7, 5}
A.
B.
C.
D.

Data Set A has a higher measure of center.

Data Set B has a higher measure of center.
Data Sets A & B have the same measure of center.
The measure of center cannot be determined from the above data.

19. Which of the following statement is true about the histogram below?

A.
B.
C.
D.

There were 14 people who participated in the survey in the age range 60-69.
There were a total of 50 people surveyed.
The range of the data is 1.9 kg.
This histogram shows a uniform distribution.

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20. Which of the histograms shown below has a lower measure of center?
A.
B.
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
Frequency 1
0.5
0

Ages

Free Response:
Find the mean and the mean absolute deviation of the following data set.
Show ALL work!
Set A:

10

3.3

5.1

2.0

2.5

1.5

3.6

1.2

Set B:

21. Find the mean absolute deviation of each set (M.A.D)

22. Which set of data has MORE variability? Use a complete sentence.

11

19

15

10

13

1
4

23. Find the 5 numbers that represent the Five Number Summary for the above data. Label each of
the numbers accordingly.
_____

_____

_____

_____

_____

24. Create a Box-and-Whisker Plot to represent this data

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25. What is the Interquartile Range (IQR) of this data?

26. What does IQR measure? Use complete sentences.

27. The quiz scores of five students in a class were 71, 62, 98, 75, and 93. A sixth student joined
the class making the mean score 66. What was the grade of the sixth student?

Tyler and Alyssa each get paid a bonus at the end of each month. This table shows their bonuses.
Month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July

Tyler
$25
$20
$20
$40
$60
$70
$20

Alyssa
$20
$40
$10
$30
$20
$80
$70

28. Find the median for Tyler and for Alyssa and compare.
Tylers Median_________________
Alyssas Median_______________
Compare your results about the measure of center.

29. Find the IQR for Tyler and for Alyssa and compare.
Tylers IQR____________________
Alyssas IQR__________________
Compare your results using complete sentences.
30. Complete the frequency chart and histogram based on the following set of data. (intervals of 10) {18,
2, 22, 5, 26, 52, 45, 71, 44, 28, 44, 79, 15, 5, 15, 35, 25, 55, 35, 68, 41, 23, 33, 34, 78, 78, 48,
92, 94, 5, 12, 15}
Interval

Frequency

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