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True / False Questions

1- A frequency distribution for qualitative data shows the number of observations in each class.
2- A frequency distribution for qualitative data has class limits.
3- A frequency distribution showing the gender of a school's students groups data into two classes.
4- In frequency distributions, classes are mutually exclusive if each individual, object, or measurement is included
in only one category.
5- The midpoint of a class, which is also called a class mark, is halfway between the lower and upper limits.
6- In constructing a frequency distribution, you should try to have open-ended classes such as "Under $100" and
"$1,000 and over".
7- To convert a frequency distribution to a relative frequency distribution, divide each class frequency by the sum
of the class frequencies.
8- To construct a histogram, the class frequencies are plotted on the vertical or Y-axis and either the stated limits,
the true limits or the midpoints are plotted on the horizontal or X-axis.
9- A pie chart shows the number of observations in each class.
10- To construct a pie chart, relative class frequencies are used to graph the "slices" of the pie.
11- The height of a bar in a histogram represents the number of observations for a class.
12- A relative frequency distribution shows the number of observations in each class.
13- A frequency polygon is a very useful graphic technique when comparing two or more distributions.
14- A relative frequency distribution shows the number of observations in each class.
20. A frequency distribution groups data into classes showing the number of observations in each class.
21. A frequency distribution for qualitative data shows the number of observations in each class.
22. A frequency distribution for qualitative data has class limits
23. A frequency distribution showing the gender of a school's students groups data into two classes
24. In frequency distributions, classes are mutually exclusive if each individual, object, or measurement is included in only one category.
25. When a frequency distribution is exhaustive, each individual, object, or measurement from a sample or population must
appear in at least one category.
26. The midpoint of a class, which is also called a class mark, is halfway between the lower and upper limits.
27. A class interval, which is the width of a class, can be determined by subtracting the lower limit of a class from the lower limit
of the next higher class.
28. A suggested class interval can be determined by the formula:
29. In constructing a frequency distribution, you should try to have open-ended classes such as "Under $100" and "$1,000 and over".
30. When constructing a frequency distribution, try to include overlapping stated class limits, such as 100 up to 201, 200 up to
301, and 300 up to 401.
31. To convert a frequency distribution to a relative frequency distribution, divide each class frequency by the sum of the class frequencies.
32. To construct a histogram, the class frequencies are plotted on the vertical or Y-axis and either the stated limits, the true limits
or the midpoints are plotted on the horizontal or X-axis.
33. A pie chart shows the number of observations in each class.
34. A pie chart is similar to a relative frequency distribution.
35. To construct a pie chart, relative class frequencies are used to graph the "slices" of the pie.
36. A cumulative frequency distribution is used when we want to determine how many observations lie above or below certain values.
37. In general, we should construct a frequency distribution so that there are either 4 or 24 classes.
38. The height of a bar in a histogram represents the number of observations for a class.
39. A relative frequency distribution shows the number of observations in each class.
40. A frequency polygon is a very useful graphic technique when comparing two or more distributions
41. A dot plot and a scatter diagram are different names for the same graph.
42. A dot plot is an easy way to represent the relationship between two variables.
43. A dot plot is useful for quickly graphing frequencies in a small data set.
44. A stem and leaf diagram shows the actual data values.
45. There is some loss of information when raw data is tallied into a stem-and-leaf display.
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46. For a stem-and-leaf display, the leaf for the value 98 is 9.

47. The stem in a stem-and-leaf display is the leading digit.
48. In a stem-and-leaf display, the leaf represents a class of a frequency distribution.
49. In a stem-and-leaf display, the leaf represents a member of a class in a frequency distribution.
50. In a stem-and-leaf display, for each class, the leaves are arranged or sorted from smallest to largest.
51. In a stem-and-leaf display, it is easy to find the range for a data set.
52. Quartiles divide a distribution into four equal parts.
53. Quartiles are another way to describe the central location of a distribution.
54. Quartiles are another way to describe the dispersion of a distribution.
55. The 50th percentile of a distribution is the same as the distribution mean.
56. The interquartile range is the difference between the values of the first and third quartile, indicating the range of the middle
fifty percent of the observations.
57. A box plot graphically shows data that are in percentiles.
58. The "box" in a box plot shows the interquartile range.
59. An outlier is a data point that occurs in the first quartile.
60. An outlier is a value in a data set that is inconsistent with the rest of the data.
61. A box plot shows the relative symmetry of a distribution.
62. A box plot shows a distribution's mean and mode.
63. A box plot shows the range of values that correspond to the upper 25% of the distribution.
64. In a box plot, if a value is more than 1.5 times the standard deviation from the first or third quartile, the value is an outlier.
65. In a box plot, if a value is more than 1.5 times the interquartile range from the first or third quartile, the value is an outlier.
66.Your gender is a nominal variable.
67.Your final grade in a course (A, B, C, D, E) is a nominal variable.
68.Your age is an interval variable.
69.Your age group (1-10; 11-20; 21-30; 31-40; etc.) is an interval variable.
70.Whether or not you are over the age of 21 is a nominal variable.
71.The values of quantitative data are categories.
72.Interval data, such as heights, weights, and incomes, are also referred to as quantitative or numerical data.
73.Nominal data are also called qualitative or categorical data.
74.A variable is some characteristic of a population or sample.
75.With nominal data, there is one and only one way the possible values can be ordered.
76.You cannot calculate and interpret differences between numbers assigned to nominal data.
77.All calculations are permitted on interval data.
78.Interval data may be treated as ordinal or nominal.
79. A bar chart is used to represent interval data.
80.One of the advantages of a pie chart is that it clearly shows that the total percentages of all the categories add to 100%.
81.Bar and pie charts are graphical techniques for nominal data. The former focus the attention on the frequency
of the occurrences of each category, and the later emphasizes the proportion of occurrences of each category.
82.A relative frequency distribution lists the categories and their counts.
83.A frequency distribution lists the categories and the proportion with which each occurs.
84.From a pie chart you are able to find the frequency for each category.
85.The intervals (classes) in a histogram do not overlap.
86.The intervals (classes) in a histogram are equally wide.
87.In a histogram, each observation is assigned to one or more classes.
88.The number of class intervals in a histogram depends on the number of observations in the data set.
89.A relative frequency distribution describes the proportion of data values that fall within each category.
90.A stem-and-leaf display reveals more information about the original data than does a histogram.
91.The number of observations within each class may be found in a frequency distribution.
92.The advantage of a stem-and-leaf display over a histogram is that we can see the actual observations.
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93.A cumulative relative frequency distribution lists the number of observations that lie below each of the class limits.
94.A histogram represents interval data.
95.A stem-and-leaf display represents nominal data.
96.When a distribution has more values to the left and tails off to the right, it is skewed negatively.
97.A histogram is said to be symmetric if, when we draw a vertical line down the center of the histogram the two
sides are nearly identical.
98.A skewed histogram is one with a long tail extending either to the right or left.
99.When a distribution has more values to the right and tails to the left, we say it is skewed negatively.
100.The sum of relative frequencies in a distribution always equals 1.
101.The sum of cumulative relative frequencies always equals 1.
102.The original observations cannot be determined once they are grouped into a frequency distribution.
103.A modal class is the class with the largest number of observations.
104.Experience shows that few students hand in their statistics exams early; most prefer to hand them in near the
end of the test period. This means the time taken by students to write exams is positively skewed.
105. A cross-classification table summarizes data from two nominal variables.
106.To describe the relationship between two nominal variables you make a scatter diagram and look for a correlation.
107. If two nominal variables are unrelated, the patterns exhibited in their corresponding bar charts should be
approximately the same. If a relationship exists, then some bar charts will differ from others.
108. A cross-classification table is the same thing as two frequency distribution tables, one for each variable.
109. If the relative frequencies in the rows of a cross-classification table are similar, then the two variables shown
in the table are not related.
110.If two nominal variables are unrelated, the patterns exhibited in their corresponding pie charts should be
approximately the same. If a relationship exists, then some pie charts will differ from others.
111. The percentage of observations in each combination of the cross-classification table must be equal in order to
show two nominal variables are not related.
112. The graphical technique used to describe the relationship between two interval variables is the scatter diagram.
113. The two most important characteristics revealed by the scatter diagram are the strength and direction of the
linear relationship.
114. If we draw a straight line through the points in a scatter diagram and most of the points fall close to the line,
there must be a positive relationship between the two variables.
115. When two variables are linearly related, and tend to move in opposite directions, we describe the nature of
their association as a negative linear relationship.
116. The scatter diagram below depicts data with a negative linear relationship.

117.If two variables have a strong linear relationship, that means one variable is
causing the other variable to go up or down.
118.A professor examines the relationship between minutes studying and exam score
(out of 200 points) for a random sample of his students. The scatter diagram is
shown below. It appears that study time has somewhat of a positive linear
relationship with exam score.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. The relative frequency of a class is computed by

a. dividing the midpoint of the class by the sample size b. dividing the frequency of the class by the midpoint
c. dividing the sample size by the frequency of the class d. dividing the frequency of the class by the sample size
2. The sum of frequencies for all classes will always equal
a. 1 b. the number of elements in a data set c. the number of classes d. a value between 0 and 1
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3. A researcher is gathering data from four geographical areas designated:

South = 1; North = 2; East = 3; West = 4. The designated geographical regions represent
a. qualitative data b. quantitative data c. label data d. either quantitative or qualitative data
4. A tabular summary of a set of data showing the fraction of the total number of items in several classes is a
a. frequency distribution b. relative frequency distribution c. frequency d. cumulative frequency distribution
5. If several frequency distributions are constructed from the same data set, the distribution with the widest
class width will have the
a. fewest classes b. most classes
c. same number of classes as the other distributions since all are constructed from the same data
6.The sum of the percent frequencies for all classes will always equal
a. one b. the number of classes c. the number of items in the study d. 100
7. The total number of data items with a value less than the upper limit for the class is given by the
a.frequency distribution b. relative frequency distribution
c. cumulative frequency distribution d. cumulative relative frequency distribution
The numbers of hours worked (per week) by 400 statistics students are shown below. Answer 8 to 12
Number of hours 0–9 10 – 19 20 – 29 30 – 39
Frequency 20 80 200 100
8. The number of students working 19 hours or less
a. is 80 b. is 100 c. is 180 d. is 300
9. The percentage of students working 19 hours or less is
a. 20% b. 25% c. 75% d. 80%
10.The cumulative percent frequency for the class of 30 - 39 is
a. 100% b. 75% c. 50% d. 25%
11. If a cumulative frequency distribution is developed for the above data, the last class will have a cumulative frequency of
a. 100 b. 1 c. 30 – 39 d. 400
12. The number of students who work 19 hours or less is
a. 80 b. 100 c. 200 d. 400
13. In constructing a frequency distribution, as the number of classes are decreased, the class width
a. decreases b. remains unchanged c. increases d. can increase or decrease depending on the data values
14. In a cumulative frequency distribution, the last class will always have a cumulative frequency equal to
a. one b. 100% c. the total number of elements in the data set
15. In a cumulative percent frequency distribution, the last class will have a cumulative percent frequency equal to
a. one b. 100 c. the total number of elements in the data set
16. A tabular method that can be used to summarize the data on two variables simultaneously is called a.
simultaneous equations b. cross tabulation c. a histogram d. an ogive
A survey of 800 college seniors resulted in the following
cross tabulation regarding their undergraduate major
and whether or not they plan to go to graduate school.
17. What percentage of the students does
not plan to go to graduate school?
a. 28 b. 520 c. 65 d. 32
18. Of those students who are majoring in business, what percentage plans to go to graduate school?
a. 27.78 b. 8.75 c. 70 d. 72.22
22. Monthly commissions of first-year insurance brokers are $1,270, $1,310, $1,680, $1,380, $1,410,
$1,570, $1,180 and $1,420. These figures are referred to as:
A. histogram. B. raw data. C. frequency distribution. D. frequency polygon.
23. A small sample of computer operators shows monthly incomes of $1,950, $1,775, $2,060, $1,840,
$1,795, $1,890, $1,925 and $1,810. What are these ungrouped numbers called?
A. Histogram B. Class limits C. Class frequencies D. Raw data
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24. In a frequency distribution, the number of observations in a class is called class

A. midpoint B. interval C. array D. frequency
25. Class interval is measured as:
A. The sum of the upper and lower limit B. Half of the sum of lower and upper limit
C. Half of the difference of lower and upper limit D. the difference of lower and upper limit
26. Which of the following does not need to be done when constructing a frequency distribution?
A. select the number of classes desired B) use classes that are mutually exclusive
C) make the class width an even number D) find the range
27. The lower class limit represents the smallest data value that can be included in the class. 2)
A. False B) True
32.The following frequency distribution presents the weights in pounds (lb) of a sample
of visitors to a health clinic.
33- What is the class width?
A) 10 B) 11 C) 80 D) 9
34- For the class 5-19, the upper class limit is 7)
A) 5 B) 4.5 C) 19 D) 19.5
35- What are the boundaries of the class 11-18?
A) 10.5 and 18.5 B) 11 and 18 C) 7.5 and 21.5 D) 7

36- In an ungrouped frequency distribution of the average age of high school graduates, what would be the
boundaries for the class of graduates who were reported to be 18 years old?
A) 17.6-19.5 years old B) 17.6-18.5 years old C) 17.5-18.5 years old D) 17-19 years old 37-
What is the midpoint of the class 6-10? 10)
A) 8 B) 5 C) 4 D) 8.5
38- Greg wants to construct a frequency distribution for the political affiliation of the employees at Owen's
A) cumulative B) ungrouped C) categorical D) grouped
38- What is the lower class limit of the class 13–17? 12)
A) 15 B) 12.5 C) 17 D) 13
39- What is the midpoint of the class 17–20? 13)
A) 18.5 B) 3 C) 1.5 D) 18 40- What is the upper
class boundary of the class 23-35 ?
A) 7.5 B) 35 C) 7 D) 35.5
41- If the limits for a class were 20-38, the boundaries would be 19.5-38.5. 15)
A) True B) False
42. Use the given frequency distribution to find the :
a. class width.
b. class midpoints of the first class.
c. class boundaries of the first class.
B) (a) 3 C) (a) 3 D) (a) 2 A)
(b) 51.5
(b) 51 (b) 51 (b) 51.5 (a) 2
(c) 49.5-52.5
(c) 50-52 (c) 49.5-52.5 (c) 50-52

43) Use the ogive below to approximate the number in the sample

A) 341 B) 80 C) 28 D) 100
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43. For the stem-and-leaf plot below, what is the maximum and what is the minimum entry?

A) max: 173; min: 116 B) max: 17.0; min: 11.6 C) max: 17.3; min: 11.6 D) max: 17.3; min: 11.7
45. For the dot plot below, what is the maximum and what is the minimum entry?

A) max: 54; min: 12 B) max: 14; min: 12 C) max: 54; min: 15 D) max: 17; min: 12 46.
For the given data, construct a frequency distribution and frequency histogram of the data using five
classes. Describe the shape of the histogram as symmetric, uniform, skewed left, or skewed right.
Data set: California Pick Three Lottery

A) skewed left B) skewed right C) uniform D) symmetric

47. Data set: California Pick Three Lottery

A) skewed left B) skewed right C) uniform D) symmetric 48.

Use the histogram below to approximate the mode heart rate of adults in the
gym.

A) 70 B) 2 C) 55 D) 42

49. For the stem-and-leaf plot below, find the range of the data set.

A) 13 B) 28 C) 34 D) 41

50. The classification of student major (accounting, economics, management, marketing, other) is an example of a(n)
a. nominal random variable. b. interval random variable. c. continuous random variable. d. parameter.
51. The classification of student class designation (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) is an example of a(n)
a. nominal random variable. b. interval random variable. c. ordinal random variable. d. a parameter.
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52. A researcher wishes to estimate the textbook costs of first-year students at Ferris State University. To do so,
he recorded the textbook cost of 200 first-year students and found that their average textbook cost was $275
per semester. The variable of interest to the researcher is
a. textbook cost. b. class rank. c. number of students. d. name of university.
53. All calculations are permitted on what type of data?
a. Interval data b. Nominal data c. Ordinal data d. All of these choices are true.
54. Values must represent ordered rankings for what type of data?
a. Interval data b. Nominal data c. Ordinal data d. None of these choices.
55. For what type of data are frequencies the only calculations that can be done?
a. Interval data b. Nominal data c. Ordinal data d. None of these choices.
56. For which type of data are the values arbitrary numbers?
a. Interval data b. Nominal data c. Ordinal data d. None of these choices.
57. Which of the following statements about pie charts is false?
a. A pie chart is a graphical representation of a relative frequency distribution.
b. You can always determine frequencies for each category by looking at a pie chart.
c. The total percentage of all the slices of a pie chart is 100%.
d. The area of a slice of a pie chart is the proportion of all the individuals that fall into that particular category.
58. Which of the following situations is best suited for a pie chart?
a. The number of dollars spent this year on each type of legal gambling.
b. The percentage of a charitable donation that goes to administrative costs vs. directly to the charity.
c. The number of students in your class who received an A, B, C, D, F on their exam.
d. All of these choices are true.
59. Which situation identifies when to use pie charts and/or bar charts?
a. You want to describe a single set of data. b. Your data is nominal.
c. You want to show the number or the percentage of individuals in each category.
d. All of these choices are true.
60. Car buyers were asked to indicate the car dealer they believed offered the best overall service. The four
choices were Carriage Motors (C), Marco Chrysler (M), Triangle Auto (T), and University Chevrolet (U).
The following data were obtained:
T C C C U C M T C U
U M C M T C M M C M
T C C T U M M C C T
T U C U T M M C U T
What percentage of car buyers identified Carriage Motors as having the best overall service?
a. 1/4 = 0.25 or 25% b. 14/40 = 0.35 or 35% c. 14% d. None of these choices.
61. Which of the following represents a graphical presentation of interval data?
a. A bar chart. b. A histogram. c. A pie chart. d. All of these choices are true.
62. Which of the following statements about histograms is false?
a. A histogram is a summary of interval data.
b. A histogram is made of a series of intervals, called classes.
c. The classes in a histogram cover the complete range of observations.
d. All of these choices are true.
63. Which of the following statements about histograms is false?
a. The intervals of a histogram do not overlap.
b. Every observation is assigned to one and only one class in a histogram.
c. The intervals of a histogram are equally wide.
d. None of these choices.
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64. Which of the following describes the shape of the histogram below?

a. Positively skewed b. Negatively skewed

c. Symmetric d. None of these choices
65. The relative frequency of a class in a histogram is computed by
a. dividing the frequency of the class by the number of classes.
b. dividing the frequency of the class by the class width.
c. dividing the frequency of the class by the total of all frequencies.
d. None of these choices.
66. A modal class in a histogram is the class that includes
a. the largest number of observations. b. the smallest number of observations.
c. the largest observation in the data set. d. the smallest observation in the data set.
67. The sum of the relative frequencies for all classes in a histogram always equals
a. the number of classes. b. the class width. c. the total of all the frequencies. d. one.
68.Which of the following statements about shapes of histograms is true?
a. A histogram is said to be symmetric if, when we draw a vertical line down the center of the
histogram, the two sides are identical in shape and size.
b. A negatively skewed histogram is one with a long tail extending to the left.
c. A positively skewed histogram is one with a long tail extending to the right.
d. All of these choices are true.
69. Which of the following is true about a stem-and-leaf display?
a. You can recreate the original data set from it. B. Its shape resembles a histogram turned on its side.
c. It provides an organized way to depict interval data. D. All of these choices are true.
70. What does the length of each line of a stem-and-leaf display represent?
a. The percentage of observations in the interval represented by that stem.
b. The number of observations in the interval represented by that stem.
c. The total frequency of observations within or below that stem.
d. The number of digits to the left of the decimal point.
71. What values are displayed on a cumulative relative frequency distribution?
a. The number of observations that fall into each class interval.
b. The proportion of observations that fall into each class interval.
c. The number of observations that fall below each class interval.
d. The proportion of observations that fall below each class interval.
72. Which of the following describes an ogive?
a. A graphical representation of frequencies.
b. A graphical representation of relative frequencies.
c. A graphical representation of cumulative frequencies.
d. A graphical representation of cumulative relative frequencies.
73. Observations that are measured at successive points in time is what type of data?
a. Time-series data b. Cross-sectional data c. Successive data d. None of these choices.
74. Observations that are measured at the same time represent what type of data?
a. Time-series data b. Cross-sectional data c. Synchronous data d. None of these choices.
75. Which of the following represents time-series data?
a. The length of time each of the top 100 stocks have been available on the NASDAQ.
b. The most popular time of year that people purchase the top 100 stocks on the NASDAQ.
c. The value of the #1 stock on the NASDAQ each month over a one-year period.
d. d. All of these choices are true.
76. Time-series data are often graphically depicted how?
a. Bar chart b. Histogram c. Line chart d. All of these choices are true.
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77. Which of the following statements describes a line chart?

a. A line chart is a graph of time-series data. b. A line chart is a plot of a variable over time.
c. The horizontal axis of a line chart contains time periods. d. All of these choices are true.
78. What type of graph depicts the data below?

a. A line chart b. A histogram

c. A dot plot d. A bar chart

79. What kind(s) of data can be depicted by a line chart?

a. Frequencies of an interval over time. b. Frequencies of a nominal variable over time.
c. Relative frequencies of a nominal variable over time. d. All of these choices are true.
80. Which of the following statements describe(s) the line chart below?

a. November experienced the lowest sales throughout the year.

b. August experienced the highest sales throughout the year.
c. Sales did not fluctuate more than 30 units on either side of 90.
d. All of these choices are true.
81.The relationship between two interval variables is graphically displayed by a
a. scatter diagram b. histogram c. bar chart d. pie chart
82. In order to draw a scatter diagram, we need interval data for
a. one variable b. two variables c. three variables d. four variables
83. Which of the following statements is false?
a. You can examine the relationship between two nominal variables using a cross-classification table.
b. You can only apply statistical techniques to one variable at a time.
c. You can examine the relationship between two interval variables using a scatter diagram.
d. None of these choices.
84. How do you determine whether two interval variables have a positive linear relationship?
a. Most of the points fall close to a straight line with positive slope.
b. As the X variable increases, the Y variable increases in a linear way.
c. The scatter diagram shows a linear pattern that is going uphill.
d. All of these choices are true.

85. If the data in a scatter diagram is scattered completely at random, what do you conclude?
a. There is no linear relationship between X and Y.
b. There is a strong linear relationship between X and Y.
c. There is a strong linear relationship between X and Y that is described by a horizontal (flat) line.
d. None of these choices.
86. Which of the following is the method statisticians use to draw the best fitting straight line through the data
on a scatter diagram?
a. The fit best method. b. The least squares method.
c. The point-intercept method. d. None of these choices.
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87. Which of the following describes a positive linear relationship between X and Y?
a. As the X values increase, the Y values increase in a linear manner.
b. As the X values decrease, the Y values decrease in a linear manner.
c. The X and Y values move uphill together in a linear manner.
d. All of these choices are true.
88. When two variables tend to move in opposite directions, yet still form a linear pattern, how do you describe
their relationship?
a. A positive linear relationship. b. A negative linear relationship.
c. A proportional inverse relationship. d. None of these choices.
89.Compare the two histograms below. Which statement is true?

a. The center of histogram A is lower than the center of histogram B.

b. The center of histogram A is higher than the center of histogram B.
c. The center of histogram A is the same as the center of histogram B.
d. You cannot compare the centers of these two histograms without the original data.
90.R89 a. The spread of histogram A is smaller than the spread of histogram B.
b. The spread of histogram A is larger than the spread of histogram B.
c. The spread of histogram A is the same as the spread of histogram B.
d. You cannot compare the spreads of these two histograms without the original data.
91 R89a. The shape of histogram A is the same as the shape of histogram B.
b. The shape of histogram A is positively skewed compared to histogram B.
c. The shape of histogram A is negatively skewed compared to histogram B.
d. You cannot compare the shapes of these two histograms without the original data.
92.Compare the spread of the two histograms below.
Which of the following is true?
a. Data Set A has a larger spread than Data Set B.
b. Data Set A has a smaller spread than Data Set B.
c. Data Set A has the same spread as Data Set B.
d. You cannot compare the spreads of these
histograms without the original data.
93. The following frequency distribution presents the
frequency of passenger vehicles that pass through a
certain intersection from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM on a particular day.
Construct a frequency bar graph for the data.
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94.The following bar graph presents the average amount a

certain family spent, in dollars, on various food categories in
a recent year.
A) Dairy products B) Cereals and baked goods a
C) Fruits and vegetables D) Meat poultry, fish, eggs

The following frequency distribution presents the frequency of

passenger vehicles that pass through a certain intersection from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM on a particular day.
Vehicle Type Motorcycle Sedan SUV Turk
Frequency 9 54 27 53
Construct a relative frequency bar graph for the data.

Construct a pie chart for the data.

95. The following pie chart presents the percentages of fish caught in each of
four ratings categories. Match this pie chart with its corresponding bar graph.

96. Following is a pie chart that

presents the percentages spent by a certain household on its five largest
annual expenditures. What percentage of the money spent was spent on
food, housing, and utilities?

A) 60.4% B) 65.4% C) 52.5% D) 47%

97. Karen is constructing a pie graph to represent the number of hours her
classmates do homework each day. She found that 8 of 24 classmates did homework for three hours
each day. In her pie graph, this would represent how many degrees?
A) 135° B) 45° C) 240° D) 120°
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98. A time series graph represents data that occur over a specific time period. A) False B) True
99. A pie graph is not useful in showing which of the following characteristics of a data set?
A) categories that make up the smallest proportions of the total
B) frequency changes over time
C) categories that make up the largest proportions of the total
D) relative frequencies for each category in the distribution
100. A time series graph is useful for which of the following purposes?
A) representing relative frequencies of categories at a specific time
B) the frequencies of the data, sorted from largest to smallest
C) representing the cumulative frequencies of the data at a specific time
D) representing the changing frequencies of a data category over a period time
101. A time series graph is useful for detecting trends that occur over the period of time. A) False B) True
102. Which graph should be used to represent the frequencies with which certain courses are taken at Highlands
Middle School?
A) pictograph B) Pareto chart C) pie graph D) time series graph
105.A pie graph would best represent the number of inches of rain that has fallen in Ohio each day for the past 2 months.
A) False B) True
106. Construct a stem-and-leaf plot for the following data.

Construct a stem-and-leaf plot for the following data, in which the leaf represents the tenths place.

107. Construct a dot plot for the following data.

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110-An automobile dealer wants to construct a pie graph to represent types of cars sold in July. He sold 72 cars,
16 of which were convertibles. How many degrees should be used for the convertibles section?
A) 100° B) 50° C) 60° D) 80°
111-If a data set showing types of pizza ordered at a particular restaurant indicates 24 out of 72 orders were for
pepperoni pizza; how many degrees would be needed to represent pepperoni pizza in a pie chart?
A) 120° B) 150° C) 60° D) 90°
112. Following are the numbers of Dean's List students in a random sample of 20 university courses. Construct
a dot plot for these data.

113 what type of graph is the figure below?

A) pie graph B) Pareto chart C) pictograph D) ogive

114. Graphs give a visual representation that may enable readers to analyze and interpret data more
easily than simply looking at tables of numbers. A) False B) True
115. When making Pareto charts, data should be arranged according to frequency.
A) clockwise B) with increasing time C) from largest to smallest D) from smallest to largest
116. A Pareto chart arranges data from largest to smallest according to frequencies.
A) True B) False
117. A Pareto chart is useful for showing percentages of the total at different times.
A) False B) True
118 . Which of the following is a Pareto chart?
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119. The following pie chart presents the percentages of fish caught in each of four ratings categories. Match
this pie chart with its corresponding Parato chart.

120) A weatherman records the amount of rain that fell in Portland, Oregon each day for a year. What type
of graph should he use to show how rainfall changes during the year?
A) Pareto chart B) pie graph C) time series graph D) pictograph
121) A Pareto chart does not have which of the following properties? 18)
A) frequencies displayed by the heights of vertical bars
B) classes of data are categorical
C) quantitative variable on the horizontal axis
D) frequencies arranged from highest to lowest