Student Name: Class Name: AAF020-1 SEM2 Applied Numeracy for

Business
Number of Questions: 32 Instructor Name: Mangat, Navneet

Question 1 of 32

A doctor's office has four doctors.

This morning, 24 patients visited the office. Each patient saw one of the four doctors.

(a) The doctor each patient went to see appears below.

(F = Dr. Foster, M = Dr. Mitchel, P = Dr. Philips, T = Dr. Tran)
Complete the frequency distribution for the data.

Doctor Frequency
Doctor
F8
T M M P F F F M
M7
M M P
P4
P F M T F T F F
T5
T M T F P

(b) These doctors are affiliated with four major medical groups.
But not every doctor is affiliated with every group.
The table below shows the groups and the doctors affiliated with them.

Medical group Doctor

City Med F and P

Bayside M and P

Plymouth P

Coast F, M, and T

How many patients went to see a doctor affiliated with the City Med medical group?

12 patients

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 1 / 20 Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
Corporation
 Question 2 of 32

There were 21 participants in a recent study on personality traits.

After being shown five images 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 , each participant selected the one that was most appealing to them.

(a) The image each participant selected appears below.

Complete the frequency distribution for the data.

Image Frequency

Image 15

2 4 3 5 4 1 3 24

1 1 2 1 4 5 5 33

4 2 5 4 2 3 1 45

54

(b) These images are associated with four personality traits.

But not every image is associated with every trait.
The table below shows the traits and the images associated with them.

Trait Image

Optimistic 4

Indecisive 3 and 5

Analytic 2, 3, and 4

Impulsive 1 and 5

How many participants selected an image that is associated with being indecisive?

7 participants

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 2 / 20 Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
Corporation
 Question 3 of 32

The pie chart below shows how the total annual income for a certain family is spent. If the amount budgeted for Clothing
and Auto combined is $39,150, what is the total family income? 13500

Housing
22%

Savings Food
9% 19%

Insurance
10%
Clothing
16%
Entertainment
11%
Auto
13%

Question 4 of 32

The circle graph shows how the annual budget for a company is divided by department. If the total annual budget is
$7,500,000, what amount is budgeted for Marketing? 2850000

Media
Editorial 12%
Research
5% 21%

Support Sales
11% 13%

Marketing
38%

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 3 / 20 Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
Corporation
 Question 5 of 32

The citizens of a certain community were asked to choose their favorite pet. The pie chart below shows the distribution of
the citizens' answers. If there are 150,000 citizens in the community, how many chose Dogs, Snakes, or Hamsters?

Dogs: 34500; snakes: 10500; Hamster: 12000

Fish
15%
Dogs
Snakes 23%
7%
Hamsters
8%

Birds
21%
Cats
26%

Question 6 of 32

Here are the shopping times (in minutes) of ten shoppers at a local grocery store.
Complete the grouped frequency distribution for the data.
In the distribution, the frequency of a class is the number of shopping times in that class.
(Note that we are using a class width of 5.)

Shopping time Shopping time

Frequency
(in minutes) (in minutes)

18 to 22 3
37 23 32 20 20
23 to 27 1
33 18 34 28 36
28 to 32 2

33 to 37 4

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 4 / 20 Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
Corporation
 Question 7 of 32

TrueFun Entertainment sells four types of products: DVDs, video games, CDs, and radios. The numbers sold for 2022 and
2023 are shown in the double bar graph below. Use this graph to answer the questions.

2022
Number sold
2023

1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
DVDs Video games CDs Radios
Product

(a) Which products sold more in 2022 than in 2023? DVDS, CDS, RADIOS

(b) Which products had more than 800 sold in 2022? CDS
(c) Estimate the total number of radios sold in the two years. 1300

Question 8 of 32

The drink booth at the school fair had these 4 types of drinks:

apple cider, orange juice, lemonade, and root beer.

The 14 students from Mrs. Hernandez's class were asked which drink they ordered. Here are the results:

apple cider, orange juice, apple cider, lemonade, apple cider, apple cider, lemonade, root beer, apple cider, lemonade, orange
juice, lemonade, lemonade, apple cider

Draw the bar graph for these data.

Frequency

7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0 0 0 0 0

apple cider orange juice lemonade root beer

Type of drink

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 5 / 20 Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
Corporation
 Question 9 of 32

Greg wants to find the average time it takes Northside High School students to run a lap around the track. So he will
consider a sample of students to find the average time.

Answer the questions below.

(a) Which unit(s) could be used for the unit of measurement? Check all that apply.
minutes hours inches meters seconds
(b) Which of the procedures below would be the best way to find the average time?

Ask for 55 volunteers to run a lap around the track and have them state their own times.
Measure the times of 4 volunteers who run a lap around the track.
Randomly pick 55 students to run a lap around the track and measure their times.
Randomly pick 4 students to run a lap around the track and have them state their own times.

Question 10 of 32

There were 1125 books sold last week at Sid's Bookstore. The table below summarizes these books by genre. This
information is also presented as a circle graph.

Find the central angle measure, x °, for the Self-Help slice in the circle graph. Do not round. 86.4’

Percentage
Genre
of Total
Mystery
Mystery 26.4% Romance

Romance 19.2%

Self-Help 24% x° Biography

Self-Help
Cooking 16%
Cooking
Biography 14.4%

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 6 / 20 Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
Corporation
 Question 11 of 32

Heather is taking a self-paced math class. Her scores for each of the 17 quizzes during the academic year are shown below.

Complete the grouped relative frequency distribution for the data. (Note that we are using a class width of 4.)
Write each relative frequency as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth, not as a percentage.

Quiz score Relative

Quiz score
frequency
81 82 80 78 85 72 to 75 0.12

76 75 90 79 87 76 to 79 0.29

83 74 82 80 76 80 to 83 0.41

84 to 87 0.12
77 82
88 to 91 0.06

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 7 / 20 Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
Corporation
 Question 12 of 32

Here are the shopping times (in minutes) for each of fifteen shoppers at a local grocery store.

Shopping times
(in minutes)

34 32 20 37 36

20 27 23 22 33

25 26 28 18 20

(a) Complete the grouped frequency distribution for the data. (Note that the class width is 5.)

Shopping times
Frequency
(in minutes)

18 to 22 5

23 to 27 4

28 to 32 2

33 to 37 4

(b) Construct a histogram for the data.

Frequency

6
5
4
3
2
1
0
18 to 22 23 to 27 28 to 32 33 to 37
Shopping times (in minutes)

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 8 / 20 Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
Corporation
 Question 13 of 32

For each part below, indicate whether the variable is a quantitative or a categorical (qualitative) variable.

Variable Type of variable

Quantitative
(a) Amount (in pounds) of weight needed to break a bridge cable

Categorical

Quantitative
(b) Medal won in a recent race (gold, silver, bronze, or none)

Categorical

Quantitative
(c) Voting status (registered or not registered)

Categorical

Quantitative
(d) Total elapsed time (in seconds) for completion of an assembly line operation

Categorical

Variable Type of variable

Quantitative
(a) Amount (in pounds) of weight needed to break a bridge cable

Categorical

Quantitative
(b) Medal won in a recent race (gold, silver, bronze, or none)

Categorical

Quantitative
(c) Voting status (registered or not registered)

Categorical

Quantitative
(d) Total elapsed time (in seconds) for completion of an assembly line operation

Categorical

Question 14 of 32

A scientist wants to find the average weight of fish living in a large pond. So she will use the weights of 52 fish from the
pond to find the average weight.

Answer the questions below.

(a) Which unit(s) could be used for the unit of measurement? Check all that apply.
seconds ounces hours pounds minutes
(b) Which of the procedures below would be the best way to find the average weight?

Pick 52 fish from a shallow region of the pond and weigh each of them.
Pick 52 fish from a shallow region of the pond and estimate their weights.
Randomly pick 52 fish from the entire pond and estimate their weights.
Randomly pick 52 fish from the entire pond and weigh each of them.

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 9 / 20 Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
Corporation
 Question 15 of 32

Each of forty-two middle school students was asked, "What is your favorite subject?"

Here are the results.

8 boys and 9 girls chose "Math".

13 boys and 12 girls chose "Social Studies".
Construct a two-way frequency table for the data.

Question 16 of 32

A small computer company runs four manufacturing plants, each of which produces two models of computer laser printers:
Model A and Model B. The double bar graph below shows the number of printers of each model produced during the last
year. Use this graph to answer the questions.

Model A
Number of printers
Model B

600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Woodland Downtown Riverton Westside
Plant

(a) Estimate the number of Model A printers produced at the Downtown plant. 450

(b) Which plants produced more Model B printers than Model A printers? Woodland

(c) Which plant produced the fewest printers total? RIVERTON

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 10 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 17 of 32

For each variable, determine whether it is best thought of as discrete or continuous.

Variable Discrete Continuous

(a) The time it takes to drive from home to work (or school) v

(b) The score (either 0, 1, 2, or 3 with 0 being the worst and 3 being the best) given by a v
quality-control manager after an equipment inspection

(c) The number of personal-injury traffic accidents last week on Interstate 65 in Indiana v

(d) The height of a fifth-grade boy v

Question 18 of 32

As preparation for designing a new line of business wear, a clothing manufacturer asked a large sample of department store
customers, "What is your favorite color of dress shirt?" The pie chart below summarizes their responses.

Black
Grey

Pink

Other Blue

White

(a) Which color was chosen by approximately one-fourth of the customers? White

(b) Approximately what percentage of the customers chose Black or Grey?

Write your answer as a multiple of 10% - that is, 10%, 20%, 30%,….
Black: 30; grey: 10%

(c) If 5% of the customers chose Other, approximately what percentage chose Grey?
15%

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 11 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 19 of 32

A hardware company has sales agents in 5 states. The number of agents in each state is shown in the bar graph below.
Using this bar graph, answer the questions.

Number of Sales Agents

12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Maryland Illinois Arizona Colorado Missouri
State

(a) Which state has the most sales agents? How many sales agents does that state have? Maryland: 10 agents

(b) How many more sales agents are in Colorado than in Illinois? 7

(c) How many states have at least 8 sales agents? 3

Question 20 of 32

In a survey, 15 people reported the number of hours they spent on the Internet last week. Their responses are given below.

Complete the grouped relative frequency distribution for the data. (Note that we are using a class width of 6.)
Write each relative frequency as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth, not as a percentage.

Number of hours Relative

Number of hours
frequency
16 13 7 21 20 2 to 7 0.13

11 19 9 2 19 8 to 13 0.47

11 15 12 8 8 14 to 19 0.27

20 to 25 0.13

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 12 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 21 of 32

A group of 250 adults were asked whether they exercise and whether they are vegetarian. Their responses are summarized
in the following table.

Vegetarian Not vegetarian

Exercise 52 63

Don't exercise 58 77

a 46%

(a) What percentage of the adults exercise %

46?
(b) What percentage of the adults are not vegetarian? %

(c) What percentage of the adults who are not vegetarian exercise? %

(d) Is there evidence that adults who are not vegetarian tend to be exercisers more often than average?

No, because the percentage found in part (c) is about the same as the percentage found in part (a).

No, because the percentage found in part (c) is about the same as the percentage found in part (b).

Yes, because the percentage found in part (c) is much greater than the percentage found in part (a).

Yes, because the percentage found in part (c) is much greater than the percentage found in part (b).

b 56%
c 30.8%
d

Question 22 of 32

Last week, there were 225 student absences at Johnson High. The circle graph below summarizes them by the day of the
week on which they occured.

The central angle for the Friday slice is 115.2 °. What percentage of the absences occured on Friday? Do not round. 32%

Tuesday

Wednesday
Monday

Thursday 115.2 °

Friday

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 13 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 23 of 32

Isabel repairs 5 types of electronic devices in her repair shop. The number of each type that she repaired last week is
shown in the bar graph below. Using this bar graph, answer the questions.

Number of Repairs

12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Television Telephone Radio Computer CD player
Type of Device

(a) Which type of device did Isabel repair the most often? How many repairs on that type of device did Isabel make? 12
radios

(b) How many more telephones than televisions did Isabel repair? 6

(c) On how many types of devices did Isabel perform fewer than 12 repairs?
4

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 14 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 24 of 32

For each variable, determine whether it is best thought of as discrete or continuous.

Variable Discrete Continuous

(a) The number of children in a household v

(b) The height of a fifth-grade boy v

(c) The total amount of time that customers spend this week listening to telephone "hold" music
v
while calling 1-800-PARCELS

(d) The time that a student in Introduction to Calculus takes to complete a midterm exam v

Question 25 of 32

Each of forty-one students was asked, "Do you prefer mystery books or science fiction books?"

Here are the results.

5 girls and 7 boys chose "Mystery".

15 girls and 14 boys chose "Science fiction".
Construct a two-way frequency table for the data.

Question 26 of 32

Ms. Johnson gave her students a biology test last week.

Here are the test scores for each of the twelve students.
Complete the grouped frequency distribution for the data.
In the distribution, the frequency of a class is the number of test scores in that class. (Note
that we are using a class width of 5.)

Test score Test score Frequency

94 86 84 80 79 to 83 5

98 83 85 94 84 to 88 3

82 81 93 80 89 to 93 1

94 to 98 3

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 15 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 27 of 32

Each person in a community was asked, "What is your favorite type of pet?" The pie chart below summarizes their
responses.

Cat

Other

Dog
None

Fish
Bird

(a) Which category was chosen by approximately one-third of the community? cats

(b) Approximately what percentage of the community chose Other or Cat?

Write your answer as a multiple of 10% - that is, 10%, 20%, 30%,….
Others: 10%; cat: 40%

(c) If 20% of the community chose Dog, approximately what percentage chose None?
5%

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 16 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 28 of 32

Sixteen cyclists were each asked the number of miles they biked last week.
Their responses are given below.

Number of miles

5 13 6 2 12 5 2 7

12 8 7 9 8 13 10 18

(a) Complete the grouped frequency distribution for the data. (Note that the class width is 4.)

Number of miles Frequency

0 to 3 2

4 to 7 5

8 to 11 4

12 to 15 4

16 to 19 1

(b) Construct a histogram for the data.

Frequency

6
5
4
3
2
1
0
0 to 3 4 to 7 8 to 11 12 to 15 16 to 19
Number of miles

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 17 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 29 of 32

For each part below, indicate whether the variable is a quantitative or a categorical (qualitative) variable.

Variable Type of variable

Quantitative
(a) Length (in feet) of a roll of plastic wrap advertised to be 30 feet long
Categorical

Quantitative
(b) Rating in a consumer magazine (excellent, above average, fair, or poor)

Categorical

Quantitative
(c) Native language

Categorical

Quantitative
(d) End-of-year stock classification (high yield, medium yield, or low yield)

Categorical

Variable Type of variable

Quantitative
(a) Length (in feet) of a roll of plastic wrap advertised to be 30 feet long
Categorical

Quantitative
(b) Rating in a consumer magazine (excellent, above average, fair, or poor)

Categorical

Quantitative
(c) Native language

Categorical

Quantitative
(d) End-of-year stock classification (high yield, medium yield, or low yield)

Categorical

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 18 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 30 of 32

The ice cream dessert at a restaurant comes in 4 flavors:

vanilla, mint, strawberry, and cookie dough.

There were 15 ice cream desserts ordered on Thursday. Here they are by flavor:

cookie dough, mint, mint, strawberry, strawberry, cookie dough, cookie dough, vanilla, cookie dough, cookie dough, cookie
dough, cookie dough, vanilla, mint, mint

Draw the bar graph for these data.

Frequency

8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0 0 0 0
0
vanilla mint strawberry cookie dough
Flavor

Question 31 of 32

The circle graph shows how a family budgets its annual income. If the total annual income is $115,000, what amount is
budgeted for Clothing? 16100

Housing
28%

Savings
7%
Leisure
13%
Insurance
10%

Auto Food
12% 16%

Clothing
14%

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 19 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation
 Question 32 of 32

A group of 220 students were asked whether they have a curfew and whether they have chores at home. Their responses
are summarized in the following table.

Have chores Don't have chores

Have a curfew 66 22

Don't have a curfew 55 77

a 40%

(a) What percentage of the students have a curfew? %

(b) What percentage of the students have chores? %

(c) What percentage of the students who have a curfew have chores? %

(d) Is there evidence that students who have a curfew tend to have chores more often than average?

Yes, because the percentage found in part (c) is much greater than the percentage found in part (a).

Yes, because the percentage found in part (c) is much greater than the percentage found in part (b).

No, because the percentage found in part (c) is about the same as the percentage found in part (a). No,

because the percentage found in part (c) is about the same as the percentage found in part (b).

b 55%
c30%
d

FTU Week 5 Practice Page 20 / Copyright © 2024 McGraw Hill - ALEKS® is a registered trademark of ALEKS
20 Corporation