Name ______________________

MEB Stats Lesson Practice Part 1

1. Give two examples of quantitative variables and two examples of categorical variables.

2. A sports analyst collects information about all 30 major league baseball teams, recording
which league (American League or National League), stadium capacity, number of wins last
season, and whether or not the team reached the playoffs last season.

a. Identify the individuals.

b. Which variables are quantitative?

c. Which variables are categorical?

3. The 481 top-grossing movies in a recent year were classified by the genre of the movie. The
results are shown in the table.
Genre of Movie Drama Documentary Comedy Action Thriller Horror Other
Frequency 144 79 58 54 47 39 60

a. Identify the variable. Is it quantitative or categorical?

b. Make a bar graph showing relative frequencies.

c. Name another type of graph that could be used to display the data.

4. A CBS News survey asked a random sample of U.S. adults to identify their age and their
preferred format for listening to music. The results are shown in the table.
a. Identify the explanatory variable and the response Age (years)
variable.
Age < 45 Age 45+

b. What percent of all adults surveyed are 45 years or Streaming 386 306
Preferred
older and prefer listening to CDs? listening Radio 138 389
format
c. What percent of all adults surveyed prefer listening to Digital Files 124 109

the radio? CDs 29 95

d. Of those adults that prefer streaming, what percent

are less than 45 years old?
5. A CBS News survey asked a random sample of U.S. adults to identify their age and their
preferred format for listening to music. A table and segmented bar graph of the results are
shown.

a. Of the adults in the survey who are less than 45 years old, what percent prefer
streaming?
b. Of the adults in the survey who are 45 years or older, what percent prefer streaming?
c. Is there an association between age and preferred listening format? Explain.

6. Based on the following graph, a counselor

concluded that the number of students
enrolled in AP Precalculus was more than
double the number of students enrolled in
AP Statistics. Do you agree? Explain.

7. In the following graph, it appears that

Toyota has sales that are more than 4 times
as big as sales from Ford or Honda. Explain
why this is misleading.
8. The National Center for Education Statistics shares data for all colleges in the United States.
Here is the distribution of the type of college for the three states with the most colleges. For
colleges in Texas, what proportion of them are private institutions?
A) 155 Type of college
262 Private Private for-
Public Total
nonprofit profit
B) 155
659 California 151 148 137 436

C) 159 State New York 79 181 38 298

996
Texas 107 71 84 262
D) 262
996 Total 337 400 259 996

E) 659
996

9. A school district surveyed students about whether they prefer math or English class and
found that there was no association between school level (middle school, high school) and
preferred class. The survey included 100 middle school students and 200 high school
students. In total, 180 of the students preferred math and 120 preferred English. Which
two-way table represents this scenario?
A) Math English Total B) Math English Total

Middle school 50 50 100 Middle school 40 60 100

High school 130 70 200 High school 140 60 200

Total 180 120 300 Total 180 120 300

C) Math English Total D) Math English Total

Middle school 80 20 100 Middle school 60 40 100

High school 100 100 200 High school 120 80 200

Total 180 120 300 Total 180 120 300

E) Math English Total

Middle school 90 10 100

High school 90 80 200

Total 180 120 300

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MEB Stats Lesson Practice Part 2
1. A recent Pew Research survey investigated the type of community people live in –
classified as either urban, suburban, or rural. Survey respondents were asked if they would
want to move to a different community. The graph shows the results.
a. Explain what the 37% in the first segmented bar
graph represents.

b. Explain what the 25% in the third segmented bar

graph represents.

c. There is an association between the type of

community a person lives in and their opinion about
moving to a different community. Explain why.

d. Draw an example of what the segmented bar graphs

would look like if there were no association.

2. A curious AP Stats teacher wondered if playing music during an exam would increase
scores. She had three classes of 30 students each. She decided to play music during the
exam for one of the classes. The mosaic plot shows the results.
a. What percent of the students who listened to music
during the exam earned an A score on the exam?

b. What percent of the students who didn’t listen to

music during the exam earned an A score on the
exam?

c. How much wider is the bar for “No music” than for
“Music”? Explain why.

d. Overall, how many students earned an A on the

exam?

e. How many students who didn’t listen to music during

the exam earned an E score on the exam?
3. The segmented bar graph displayed shows the relative frequency distribution of AP math
course enrollment for three different high schools. Which of the following statements must
be true?
A) For high school A, there were more
students enrolled in AP Calculus than AP
Statistics.

B) The number of students enrolled in AP

Calculus is the same for high school B and
high school C.

C) For high school B, more than half of the

AP math course enrollment is for AP
Precalculus.

D) There were fewer students enrolled in AP

Precalculus at high school C than at high
school A.

E) For high school C, there were more

students enrolled in AP Statistics than AP
Calculus.

4. The mosaic plot shows the relative frequency of each grade level for three varsity sports
teams at a local high school. Which of the following statements must be true?
A) The football team has a higher percent of
11th graders than the volleyball team.

B) All three teams have at least one 9th

grade player.

C) For the basketball team, there are more

12th graders than all other grades
combined.

D) There are more 12th graders on the

football team than 12th graders on the
volleyball team.

E) The basketball team has more 9th graders

than any other grade level.
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MEB Stats Lesson Practice Part 3
1. Identify if the variable described is categorical or quantitative. If it is quantitative, also
identify if it is discrete or continuous.

a. Patient body temperature recorded in an emergency room

b. Population of a randomly selected city

c. The brand of each car in the student parking lot

2. Owen is a former AP Statistics student who recorded his scores on each unit test
throughout the course. His test scores are listed.
79, 84, 81, 88, 78, 82, 84, 97, 86, 80, 79

a. Make a dotplot to display the distribution of Owen’s test scores.

b. Calculate the mean and median of the data.

c. Which measure of center is most appropriate to describe the data? Why?

3. The stem and leaf plot shows the daily high temperature (in °F) for Grand Rapids, Michigan
for each day in June of a recent year.
a. Find the median of the distribution.

b. Find the range of the distribution.

c. Describe the shape of the distribution.

4. Describe the shape of each of the distributions.

a.

b.

c.

5. Luke’s average score after bowling three games is 146 points. What score does he need to
get on the fourth game to raise his average score by 5 points?
6. All the students in a statistics class were asked to bring their backpacks to class before
unpacking them. The teacher brought in a scale and each student weighed their backpack.
The results are in the table. Each weight is rounded to the nearest pound.

Weight (pounds) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Frequency 2 4 5 4 5 1 1

a. Make a histogram displaying the students’ backpack weights.

b. Calculate the mean and median of the students’ backpack weights.

c. Describe the distribution.

7. Sylvia is wondering how many hours students are working at jobs each week. She surveys
100 seniors and records the number of hours they worked at a job in the past week. Which
of following displays would not be a good way to display her results?
A) Dotplot

B) Histogram

C) Stem and leaf plot

D) Bar chart

E) All of these displays are a good way to display her results

8. Megan is a zoologist and is responsible for monitoring the weights of the penguins at the
zoo. Megan weighs each of the Macaroni and King penguins at the zoo. The results are
shown in the table. What is the median weight for the combined group of 27
measurements?
n Mean Median
Macaroni 17 11.2 10.5
King 10 31.9 33

A) 11.2 + 31.9
2

B) 10.5 + 33
2

C) 17(11.2) + 10(31.9)
27

D) 17(10.5) + 10(33)
27

E) It cannot be determined from the information given.

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MEB Stats Lesson Practice Part 4
1. A store sells eight varieties of water bottles. The prices for these eight varieties of water
bottles are as follows.
$27.99, $13.99, $5.99, $11.99, $13.99, $12.99, $16.99, $25.49

a. Calculate the mean price of water bottle varieties at this store.

b. Calculate the range of the prices of water bottle varieties at this store.

c. The standard deviation of water bottle variety prices at this store is $7.25. Interpret this
value.

2. A random sample of five parents at a parent-teacher conference was asked to report how
many hours they work in a typical week. The results are given.
38, 45, 60, 40, 35

a. Calculate the mean number of hours worked.

b. Calculate and interpret the standard deviation of the number of hours worked.

3. Two sets of numbers are given.

Set A: 40, 45, 50, 55, 60
Set B: 46, 48, 50, 52, 54

a. Compare the means of the two sets of numbers.

b. Compare the medians of the two sets of numbers.

c. Without doing any calculations, determine which set has a larger standard deviation.
Explain.

4. Consider the set of numbers given.

25, 33, 8, 18, 16
A sixth value of 20 is added to the data set. Fill in the blank with “increase”, “decrease”, or
“stay the same” to indicate what will happen as a result of including this new value. Give a
reason for your answer.

a. The mean will ___________.

b. The median will ___________.

c. The range will _______________.

d. The standard deviation will ____________.

5. Forty students were asked to report the time of their commute to school, in minutes. The
data are shown in the dotplot.

a. The mean commute time to school is 14.2 minutes. How does the median commute time
compare to this value? Explain your reasoning.

b. Which measure of center, mean or median, would best describe the typical commute
time to school? Explain.

c. The standard deviation of commute times for these 40 students is 14.4 minutes. Interpret
this value.

6. The histogram shows the distribution of

birth rates for 45 countries in Europe. The
summary statistics are also shown. Describe
the distribution of birth rates.
7. For the given histograms, which of the following correctly orders the standard deviations of
the distributions from least to greatest?
A) A, B, C

B) B, A, C

C) A, C, B

D) B, C, A

E) C, A, B

8. Data sets X and Y are shown in the histograms. Which of the following statements must be
true?

A) The ranges of data set X and data set Y are equal.

B) The medians of data set X and data set Y are equal.

C) The means of data set X and data set Y are equal.

D) The standard deviation of data set X is greater than the standard deviation of data set Y.

E) All of these must be true.

 Name ______________________
MEB Stats Lesson Practice Part 5
1. The number of days that experienced rainfall in the past year was recorded for a sample of
10 U.S. cities. Here are the data:
86, 112, 116, 118, 121, 127, 128, 136, 159, 166

a. Determine the five-number summary of the distribution of days that experienced rainfall.

b. Another city with 120 days of rainfall is added to the list. How would including this
value change the five-number summary?

2. A random sample of students was asked how many minutes they typically spend eating
breakfast. The dotplot shows the results.
a. Determine the five-number
summary of the distribution of time
spent eating breakfast. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Time Spent Eating Breakfast (minutes)

b. Create a boxplot of the distribution.

c. Give two advantages of using the

dotplot over the boxplot for
displaying the data.

3. Eighteen different players on a college lacrosse team scored at least one goal in a recent
season. The number of goals scored by each of these players is listed along with the
summary statistics.
1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 8, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 19, 24, 32, 50, 51, 107, 121
n mean SD min Q1 med Q3 max
18 27 35.12 1 6 13 32 121

a. Use the 1.5 × IQR method to identify any outliers. Show your work.

b. Use the 2 × SD method to identify any outliers. Show your work.

c. Create a boxplot.
4. A large high school has 148 teachers. The boxplot shows the distribution of the number of
years of experience.

a. Find and interpret the median number of years teaching experience.

b. What percent of the teachers have 7 or more years of teaching experience?

c. About how many of the teachers have between 7 and 23 years of experience?

5. The histogram shows the distribution of the percent of the population that is urban for each
of 216 countries/territories.
a. Is it possible to calculate the median urban
population percent from the information given in the
graph? Explain.

b. What interval contains the first quartile of the urban

population percent?

6. A local café posts the number of calories in each of their full-sized sandwiches and full-
sized salads. The table shows each value for number of calories and the boxplots display
the calorie distributions. Compare the distributions.

Sandwiches 1110, 1070, 970, 830, 960, 1080, 940, 810, 640, 760, 590, 720, 590
Salads 620, 500, 640, 450, 410, 560, 350, 410
7. The stem and leaf plot shows the average points-per-game in the NBA playoffs, rounded
to the nearest whole point, for two different NBA basketball players, Michael Jordan and
LeBron James. Which of the following statements is true?

A) The median of the average points-per-game for Jordan is less than the median of the
average points-per-game for James.

B) The range of the average points-per-game for Jordan is less than the range of the
average points-per-game for James.

C) The interquartile range is the same for both players.

D) The mean of the average points-per-game for Jordan is less than the median of the
average points-per-game for James.

E) Both distributions are skewed to the right.

8. The histogram shows the distribution of the number of representatives in the U.S. House of
Representatives for the 50 states. The four largest values (26, 28, 38, and 52) are all
outliers. Which of the following boxplots could also represent the distribution of the
number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives?

A) B)

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
Number of Representatives Number of Representatives

C) D)

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
Number of Representatives

E)

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
Number of Representatives