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1. A set of data has a minimum value of 2, a maximum value of 20, a lower quartile of 6, a median of 8 and
an upper quartile of 15.

What is the interquartile range of this data set?

A. 2
B. 7
C. 9
D. 18

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2. The number of children per family in a small town are listed here:
0, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 2, 0, 1, 0
What is the mean number of children per family?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

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3. Jenny earned $14, $16, $20, $12 and $13 babysitting her little brother for 5 nights.

What is the median amount of money that she earned?

A. $13
B. $14
C. $16
D. $20

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4. The dot plot shows the number of runs scored by a baseball team for each game they played in the
month of April.

How many games did the team play during April?

A. 12
B. 15
C. 17
D. 20

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5. Maya received her report card today. What is the range of her grades?
SUBJECT GRADE
Language Arts 88
Math 97
Science 83
Social Studies 79
Band 94
PE/Health 92
A. 9
B. 18
C. 19
D. 79

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6. Adam surveyed 10 students to determine the amount of money they spent going out to eat each week.
Here are the results:
35, 38, 29, 42, 45, 32, 40, 30, 2, 46
Which measure would best represent the data?

A. median
B. mean
C. range
D. interquartile range

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7. Brian incorrectly determined that 20 is the mean of the following data set:
4, 3, 8, 2, 3
What was most likely his error?

A. He did not add correctly.

B. He did not divide correctly.
C. He forgot to find the sum of the data before he divided.
D. He forgot to divide after he found the sum of the data.

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Which measure of center would best represent the dot plot? Justify your answer.

A. Mean is the best measure of center, because the data is symmetrical.

B. Mean is the best measure of center, because the data is NOT symmetrical.
C. Median is the best measure of center, because the data is symmetrical.
D. Median is the best measure of center, because the data is NOT symmetrical.

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Coach Fred asked his cross-country runners to record the number of miles they ran last week.

If the data in the histogram only represents HALF of the team, how many runners make up the ENTIRE
team?

A. 9
B. 17
C. 20
D. 34

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Using the following histogram, how many people own 5 pets?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. Cannot be determined

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Rye collected data about the length of her classmates first names and displayed the data in a box plot.

How many classmates names were included in her box plot?

A. 11 - 3 = 8, so there were 8 names included in her box plot.

B. 11 is the maximum value, so there were 11 names included in the box plot.
C. 14 is the largest number on the number line, so there were 14 names included in the box plot.
D. There is not enough information to determine how many total data points were used to create the
box plot.

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