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AP Stats Unit 1 Test

1. The distribution of the number of aces served by each of the top 20 female tennis players at Wimbledon in a
recent year is shown along with summary statistics.

The value of 47 aces, served by Serena Williams, is an outlier. If this value is excluded from the data set, what is
the mean of the remaining 19 values? Round to the nearest tenth.

A) 19.0

B) 18.5

C) 17.6

D) 15.5

E) Not enough information to determine

2. A coffee shop serves two drinks (coffee, tea) and three snacks (muffins, donuts, bagels). The owner wants to
know which drink customers prefer to have with each of the snacks that are being offered, so she keeps track of
all the customers who purchase a single snack for a full day. The segmented bar graph shows the results:

Which of the following statements must be true?

A) Fifty percent of all customers who purchased a snack did not purchase a drink.

B) Of the customers that purchased a bagel, a higher percent purchased tea than coffee.

C) The number of customers who purchased a donut and neither drink is the same as the number of customers
who purchased a bagel and neither drink.

D) The number of customers who purchased a donut and a tea is the same as the number of customers who
purchased a donut and neither drink.

E) A majority of customers who purchased a muffin purchased coffee.

3. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, distracted driving is any activity that takes the
attention of the driver of a vehicle away from driving. This can include things like talking with passengers, using a
navigation system, and using a cell phone. The two-way table shows the number of fatal car accidents that
occurred in selected states and whether or not the accident was due to distracted driving.

What proportion of the fatal accidents shown in the table occurred in Washington and were due to distracted
driving?
87
A)
525
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87
B)
2, 438
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87
C)
372
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372
D)
2, 438
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525
E)
2, 438
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4. A handbell choir director determines the mean and standard deviation of the number of measures in each song
played by the handbell choir over a one-year period. Which of the following best describes the standard
deviation?

A) Half the difference between the greatest number of measures in a song and the least number of measures in a
song

B) The difference between the median and the mean number of measures of all the songs

C) Approximately the mean distance between the number of measures in each individual song and the mean
number of measures of all the songs

D) The number of measures separating the song at the 25th quartile and the 75th quartile of the distribution

E) Approximately the distance between the number of measures of two songs, selected at random
5. A random sample of 29 high school students in the United States was surveyed. In the survey, students were
asked how many text messages they had received the previous day. The histogram displays the data collected.
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Frequency
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0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240
Number of Text Messages

In which of the following intervals is the median of these data located?

A) 0 up to 40 text messages

B) 40 up to 80 text messages

C) 80 up to 120 text messages

D) 120 up to 160 text messages

E) 200 up to 240 text messages

6. Home values in San Francisco are skewed to the right with many high outliers that are 10+ million dollars. The
website realtor.com states that the typical home value in San Francisco is 1.3 million (the median). Which of the
following statements explains why the median home value is used instead of the mean home value?

A) The median is always the number that occurs most often.

B) The median is always the preferred measure of center.

C) The mean is nonresistant to outliers, while the median is resistant to outliers.

D) The median home value will be greater than the mean home value for homes in San Francisco.

E) The median home value should be very close to the mean home value for homes in San Francisco.
7. All of the seniors at a small high school were surveyed and then categorized by their handedness (which hand
was dominant) and by their current grade in their math class. The results are shown in the table.

Which of the following statements is true?

A) Of the left-handed seniors, a higher percent are getting a C or D in math class than those getting an A or B.

B) Of the right-handed seniors, a higher percent are passing (A, B, C, or D) than failing (E) their math class.

C) There is a higher percent of the A or B seniors that are left-handed than right-handed.

D) There is a lower percent of seniors that are left-handed than the percent of seniors who are getting an E in
their math class.

E) There is a lower percent of right-handed seniors than left-handed seniors.

8. Each year Kara keeps a log of all the books she read during the year. She records how she read the book (print or
digital), the number of pages in the book, the genre, whether or not she owns the book, and a rating from 1-10 of
how much she liked the book. Which of the following correctly describes the number of categorical and
quantitative variables that Kara records in the log?

A) 1 categorical, 4 quantitative

B) 2 categorical, 3 quantitative

C) 3 categorical, 2 quantitative

D) 4 categorical, 1 quantitative

E) 5 categorical

9. The scale on the axis is the same for each distribution shown. Which of the following distributions has the
smallest standard deviation?

A) B)

C) D)

E)
10. Every 4th of July there is hot dog eating contest held in New York. The number of hot dogs eaten by the
contestants in a recent year is shown in the stem and leaf plot.

What is the interquartile range for this data set?

A) 13.146

B) 17

C) 19

D) 30

E) 47
11. The school attendance clerk is investigating the number of absences among teachers and students at a very large
high school. She randomly samples 100 teachers and 600 students and records the number of days absent they
had the previous semester. The results are shown in the table and segmented bar graph.

a. Which variable is the explanatory variable? Explain.

b. What proportion of the total sample had 5 or fewer absences?

c. What proportion of the students had 6+ absences?
d. What proportion of the teachers had 6+ absences?
e. Is there an association between the role of the person and the number of days absent? Explain.
 f. How would a mosaic plot look different than the segmented bar graphs presented?

12. The following histograms show the distributions of fuel economy (miles per gallon) for 9 different car models and
16 different truck models that run on petroleum gasoline. Compare the distributions.
Group name n Mean SD Min Q1​ Med Q3​ Max
Car ​ 9 ​ 34.678 ​ 8.642 ​ 23 ​ 25.2 ​ 34.9 ​ 42.8 ​ 46.1 ​ ​

Truck 16 25.444 6.573 16.7 20.75 24.3 28.55 39.8

13. A carton of eggs is usually classified by the size of the eggs: medium, large, or extra large. Bill raises chickens and
sells the eggs at a farmstand. He weighs each egg in a carton of 12 so he can determine the size classification.
The results are shown in the dotplot.

a. Find the five-number summary for the distribution of egg weights.

b. Determine if there are any outliers using the 1.5 × IQR rule. Show your work.

c. Construct a boxplot of the distribution.

d. Without doing any calculations, how will the mean compare to the median? Explain.
14. All 82 students in Mrs. Gallas’ classes were asked how many concerts they had attended in the past year. The
results are in the table.
Number of concerts 0 1 2 3 4 5 7
Frequency 18 23 16 11 8 5 1
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a. Determine the five-number summary of the distribution.

b. Use the 1.5 × IQR method to check if there are any outliers. Show your work.

c. Make a boxplot of the distribution.