AP Statistics

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1. Identify the variable as a quantitative or a categorical variable.
a. Ethnicity of the next student who walks in the door.

b. The weight of the next baby born at a particular hospital.

Type of
Spam
Adult
Financial
Health
Internet
Leisure
Products
Scams
Other

Percent
19
20
7
7
6
25
9
?

c. The number of pencils in a students backpack.

d. The type of books in a studious persons backpack.

2. Email spam is the curse of the Internet. Here is a compilation of the most common types of
spam:
a. What percent of spam would fall in the "Other" category?

b. Would it be appropriate to make a pie chart of these data?

c. Display these data in a bar graph in the space below.

Why or why not?

3. Below is a histogram of the gold medalwinning high jumps for the Olympic Games.

What (approximately) is the center of this

histogram?
a. 75 inches
b. 77.5 inches
c. 82 inches
80
100
85
230
95

100
75
75
85
100

105
85
95
80
83

120
80
101
120
80

103
60
100
120
90

115
115
0
120
0

80
140
55
100
110

135 90 130
114 120 100
120 70 100
130 105 85
80
80 125
d. 90 inches

4. On the Student Data Survey, AP Statistics students at McKinney Boyd High School were
asked the fastest speed
they have ever driven a car. Fifty randomly selected responses
are in the table below.

Construct a histogram that will display the distribution of the fastest speed AP Stats
students have ever driven a
car. ALSO, describe the distribution.

5.

The lists below show the percentage of games won in regular season play of major league
baseball teams for the
2001 season. The teams are divided into two leagues. Make a back-to-back stemplot with
split stems and
compare the shape (only) of the two distributions.
National League: 33, 57, 42, 40, 45, 48, 55, 56, 53, 50, 54, 53, 54, 42, 46, 57
American League: 51, 45, 49, 63, 71, 38, 40, 56, 39, 40, 50, 59, 52, 46
National

American

6. Use the following two-way table to answer the questions below.

Education
Total
Did not complete high school
27,853
Completed high school
58,087
1 to 3 years of college
44,445
4 or more years of college
44,845
Total
175,230

Age Group
25 to 34
35 to 54

55 and over

4,474

9,155

14,224

11,546

26,481

20,060

10,700

22,618

11,127

11,066

23,183

10,596

37,786

81,436

56,008

a. What is the percent of people 25 to 34 years of age who have at least 4 years of
college?

b. Give the marginal distribution (in percent) of educational level among the surveyed
individuals.