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Test 1B

Part 1
1. b 300 x 32% = 96 students.
2. d The vertical scale exaggerates differences in the number of champions of each breed. For
example, 12 Mixed Breed dogs is only 4 more dogs than the 8 Australian Shepherds, not twice as
many, as the graph suggests.
3. b The stem and leaf 9|0, representing 9.0%, is the second lowest value in the distribution.
4. d Q1 = 12.4% and Q3 = 14.3%. IQR is 14.3 – 12.4 = 1.9%
5. e Since the distributions is skewed left, the mean is less than the median, but I is too far to the left
to possibly be the mean, so II is the mean and III is the median.
6. d The association is that a higher proportion of males are Republicans and a higher proportion of
females are Democrats.
7. c A change in any value will affect the mean, but the median will not be affected by a change in the
maximum value.
8. b The sum of the first 12 items is 12 x $3.25 = $39.00. The mean of all 13 items is ($39.00 +
$6.50)/13 = $3.50.
9. d Standard deviation is a type of average of how far each day’s number of copies is from the mean
number of copies.
10. c 35 is Q1 and 61 is median, so 25% of the scores are in this range. 25% of 380 is 95.

Part 2
11. (a) For Stony Brook: Q1 = 3.5 and Q3 = 7.5; 1.5 x IQR = 6. Q1 –
6 < 0 so no low outliers; Q3 + 6 = 13.5, so no high outliers. For Mill
Brook: Q1 = 4.5 and Q3 = 10.5; 1.5 x IQR = 9.
Q1 – 9 < 0 so no low outliers; Q3 + 9 = 19.5, so 20 is a high outlier.

(b) Boxplots to right.

(c) Nitrate concentrations in Stony Brook are lower and less variable.
The median and IQR in Stony Brook (5 mg/l and 4 mg/l, respectively)
are much lower than in Mill Brook (8.25 mg/l and 6 mg/l,
respectively). Stony Brook’s distribution is slightly skewed
right; Mill Brook’s is roughly symmetric, with one high outlier.
12. (a) Histograms will vary with chosen bin width. One
example at right. (b) Since the data is roughly symmetric, it
would be best to use mean and standard deviation as measures of
center and spread, respectively. 13. (a) Students may present a
table of column conditional percentages, or a segmented bar
graph (below and at right). (b) There is a strong association
between age of viewer and the amount of violence they watched:
the younger viewers had the highest proportion of “high-
violence” viewers, and the older viewers had the lowest
proportion of “high-violence” viewers. Those in the middle-
aged range had an intermediate proportion of “high-violence”
viewers.
Violence Watched 16-34 35-54 55 and over
Low 30.8% 44.4% 75%
High 69.2% 55.6% 25%

©BFW Publishers The Practice of Statistics for AP*, 5/e

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