Chapter 1 Review AP Statistics Name: AE vo Part 1: Multiple Choice. Circle the letter for your answer. 1 A reporter wishes to portray baseball players as overpaid. Which measure of center should he report as the ayerage salary of major league players? The mean. LF will be yyeater since the cistribulion oP salaries i» skeved do the rieluh. }) The median. ¥ (c) The mode. (@) Either the mean or median. It doesn’t matter since they will be equal. ~~ (@) Neither the mean nor median, Both will be much lower than the actual average salary. 10 20° 30° 50 60 70 80 90 Petal Length (mm) A botanist is studying the petal lengths, measured in millimeters, of two species of lilies. ‘The boxplots above illustrate the distribution of petal lengths from two samples of equal size, one from species A and the other from species B. Based on these boxplots, which of the following is a correct conclusion about the data collected in this study? (2) The interquartile ranges are the same for both samples, (b) The range for species B is greater than the range for species A. (©) There are more petal lengths that are greater than 70 mm for species A than there are for species B. (@) There are more petal lengths that are greater than 40 mm for species B than there are for species A. ‘There are more petal lengths that are less than 30 mm for species B than there are for species A. A Yan FO fd the polal leas Be species B are less dan BO mm, Moot 25% F the petal lerals h species A ce. less than BO men If the largest value of a data set is doubled, which of the following is nof true? (a) The mean increases. (b) The standard deviation increases. The interquartile range incr @) The variance increases. (©) The median remains unchanged, TAR 1s cesisbrt to orctreme daservations —— 40 as4, A particularly common question in the study of wildlife behavior involves observing contests between “residents” of a particular area and “intruders.” In each contest, the “residents” either win or lose the encounter (assuming there are no ties). Observers might record several variables, listed below. Which of these variables is categorical? (a) The duration of the contest (in seconds) (b) The number of animals involved in the contest @ Whether the “residents” win or lose Responses are nen-numerical @) The total number of contests won by the “residents” (©) None of these 5. Fourth grade children were asked what emotion they associated with the color red. The responses for emotion and gender of the children are summarized in the following two-way table. [Pain —Happiness_ Love | (evnias ee Oe __| eS Female 17 What proportion of the males associate the color red with love? (a) 0.5234 (b) 0.3598 03393 33 0.1822 u2 (©) 0.1775 6. A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of varying amounts of vitamin C in reducing the number of common colds. A survey of 450 people provided the following information: ‘None 1000 mg 37 4 | 17 | | 9 No colds 7 aia) At least one cold 223 74.6% | 43 HE 280 60 What conclusion can be made? (a) The data proves that vitamin C reduces the number of common colds. (b) The data proves that vitamin C has no effect on the number of common colds. There appears to be a strong association between consumption of vitamin C and the occurrence of common colds, be can't prove that vilarsin C reduces colds, but Huce certainly seems bo be a ce lationship (d) There appears to be little association between consumption of vitamin C aiid the occurrence of common colds, (@) Since common colds are caused by viruses, there is no reason to conclude that vitamin C could have any effect.Part 2: Free Response Answer completely, but be concise, Write sequentially and show all steps If you were working with a skewed distribution, which numerical summary would you recommend, (1) the ‘mean and standard deviation or (2) the five number summary? Explain, the Bie number Samoan is better because fre medion is a better measure, & center (since tts resistaat) aad the mae and TAR ore belle measures & spend fe skewed divbribatims ciace dhe oprend 3s diBreat on either side PP dle mena. . The five-number summary for scores on a statistics exam is 11, 35, 61, 70, 79. In all, 380 students took the test. About how many had scores between 11 and 70? Abad 75% & dhe. shederds, 20 abut 285 shdenhs .. The histogram at the right shows the number of hurricanes reaching the east coast of the United States each ‘year over a 70-year period, a) Describe the shape of the distribution. This hay skewed, ond could make a case oe eitler direction. However... 'b) Which is higher, the mean or the median? The oredian CoM) is higher thon de mean (ab 3.74) L, This lends me te rank ifs more skewed fe fle lel