Activity 1: Matching type.
Match column A with the correct answer on Column
B. Write only the letter of answer on the blank provided before the number.
A
_____ 1. It displays data at different points in time, so it
is another kind of graph to be used for
certain kinds of paired data.
_____ 2. It displays data that is paired by using a
horizontal axis (the x-axis), and a vertical
axis (the y-axis).
_____ 3. It breaks each value of a quantitative data set into two pieces: a
stem, typically for the highest place value, and a leaf for the other place
values.
_____ 4. It shows how a whole is divided into different parts.
_____ 5. This type of graph is used with quantitative data.
Ranges of values, called classes, are listed at the
bottom, and the classes with greater frequencies
have taller bars
A. Scatterplot D. Pie Chart
B. Line Graph E. Stem and Leaf Plot
C. Histogram F. Bar Graph
Activity 2: Use the following information to fill in the table and answer the two questions below.
A survey of a random sample of 100 nurses working at a large hospital asked how many years
they had been working in the profession. Their answers are summarized in the following
(incomplete) table.
No. of Frequency Relative Cumulative Relative
Years (f) Frequency Frequency
< 5 25
5 -10 30
> 10 45
Questions:
1. What proportion of nurses have five or more years of experience?
2. What proportion of nurses have ten or fewer years of experience?
Activity 3: Data Analysis
A. A survey asked people how often they exceed speed limits. The data are then
categorized into the following contingency table of counts showing the
relationship between age group and response.
Age Exceed Limit if Possible
Always Not Always Total
Under 30 100 100 200
Over 30 40 160 200
1. Among people with age over
30, what's the "risk" of Total 140 260 400 always
exceeding the speed limit?
A. 0.20 B. 0.40 C. 0.33 D. 0.50
2. Among people with age under 30, what are the odds that they always
exceed the speed limit?
A. 1 to 2 B. 2 to 1 C. 1 to 1 D. 3 to 1
3. What is the relative risk of always exceeding the speed limit for people under
30 compared to people over 30?
A. 2.5 B. 0.4 C. 0.5 D. 0.3
B. The following histogram shows the distribution of the difference between the
actual and “ideal” weights for 119 female students. Notice that percent is given
on the vertical axis. Ideal weights are responses to the question, “What is your
ideal weight”? The difference = actual −ideal. (Source: ideal women dataset on
CD.)
4. What is the approximate shape of the distribution?
A. Nearly symmetric C. Skewed to the left
B. Skewed to the right D. Bimodal (has more than one peak)
5. The median of the distribution is approximately
A. – 10 pounds B. 10 pounds C. 30 pounds D. 50 pounds
6. Most of the women in this sample felt that their actual
weight was
A. about the same as their ideal weight
B. less than their ideal weight.
C. greater than their ideal weight.
D. no more than 2 pounds different from their ideal weight.
C. Study the bar graph below and answer the following questions.
7. What does the scale on the left beginning with 0 and ending with 7
represent?
A. Number of students selling candy
B. Number of cases of candy sold
C. Number of candy in each case
D. Number of days each month that candy was sold
8. Which two MONTHS had approximately the same amount of candy
sold?
A. September & February
B. October & March
C. November & March
D. September & December
9. The amount of candy sold in December is twice the amount of candy
sold in which other month?
A. October
B. March
C. January
D. September
10. What was the total amount of candy sold during the school year shown
in the graph?
A. 27.5 Cases
B. 43 Cases
C. 35.5 Cases
D. 23 Cases
