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AP Statistics - CH 2 FRQ Review

This document contains 5 statistics problems involving z-scores, percentiles, distributions, and normality. Problem 1 asks about finding the z-score and percentile for a student's height. Problem 2 involves finding the percentile and interquartile range from a cumulative relative frequency graph of computer use. Problem 3 transforms data from feet to meters and calculates mean, median, standard deviation, and interquartile range, as well as the mean and standard deviation of errors from an actual width. Problem 4 calculates the percentage of low birth weight babies and quartiles of birth weights. Problem 5 assesses whether a set of data is normally distributed based on a normal probability plot.

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AP Statistics - CH 2 FRQ Review

This document contains 5 statistics problems involving z-scores, percentiles, distributions, and normality. Problem 1 asks about finding the z-score and percentile for a student's height. Problem 2 involves finding the percentile and interquartile range from a cumulative relative frequency graph of computer use. Problem 3 transforms data from feet to meters and calculates mean, median, standard deviation, and interquartile range, as well as the mean and standard deviation of errors from an actual width. Problem 4 calculates the percentage of low birth weight babies and quartiles of birth weights. Problem 5 assesses whether a set of data is normally distributed based on a normal probability plot.

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AP Statistics – CH 2 FRQ Review

1. Is Paul tall? According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the distribution of heights for 15-year-old
males has a mean of 170 centimeters (cm) and a standard deviation of 7.5 cm. Paul is 15 years old and 179 cm
tall.

(a) Find the z-score corresponding to Paul’s height. Explain what this value means.

(b) Paul’s height puts him at the 85th percentile among 15-year-old males. Explain what this means to
someone who knows no statistics.

2. Computer use Mrs. Causey asked her students how much time they had spent using a computer during the
previous week. The following figure shows a cumulative relative frequency graph of her students’ responses.

(a) At what percentile does a student who used her computer for 7 hours last week fall?

(b) Estimate the interquartile range (IQR) from the graph. Show your work.
3. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie A group of Australian students were asked to estimate the width of their classroom in
feet. Use the dotplot and summary statistics below to answer the following questions.

(a) Suppose we converted each student’s guess from feet to meters (3.28 ft = 1 m). How would the
shape of the distribution be affected? Find the mean, median, standard deviation, and IQR for the
transformed data.

(b) The actual width of the room was 42.6 feet. Suppose we calculated the error in each student’s
guess as follows: guess − 42.6. Find the mean and standard deviation of the errors. Justify your
answers.

4. Low-birth-weight babies Researchers in Norway analyzed data on the birth weights of 400,000 newborns over a
6-year period. The distribution of birth weights is Normal with a mean of 3668 grams and a standard deviation
of 511 grams. Babies that weigh less than 2500 grams at birth are classified as “low birth weight.”

(a) What percent of babies will be identified as low birth weight? Show your work.

(b) Find the quartiles of the birth weight distribution. Show your work.
5. Assessing Normality A Normal probability plot of a set of data is shown here. Would you say that these
measurements are approximately Normally distributed? Why or why not?

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