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Unit 8 Review_Statistics

1. Maria would like to know the average time it takes seventh graders to get to school on a regular
day in her school. After collecting the times from the survey question, she selects a random
sample of 20 students. The mean time of Maria’s sample is 33 minutes, and the MAD (mean
absolute deviation) is 2 minutes.

Select all the true statements. Justify your choices with an explanation

A. Another random sample of 20 students is likely to have a mean between 29 and 37

minutes.

B. The mean time of these 20 students is likely to be the same as the mean time of all
students in the district.
C. The mean time of these 20 students is likely to be the same as the mean time of a
second random sample of 20 students.
D. Maria would be more likely to get an accurate estimate of the mean time of the
population by sampling 40 people instead of sampling 20 people.
E. The median time of the sample must be between 31 and 35 minutes.

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2. The price per pound of catfish at a fish market was recorded for 100
weeks.
Here are dot plots showing the population and three different samples from that population.
Which of the following is a representative sample of this population? Verify your answer by
explaining using key words or numerically.

Population

Sample 1

Sample 2

Sample 3

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3. Each dot plot represents a sample of 100 data.

Sample 1:

Sample 2:

1. Estimate the population means using these samples.

2. Based on the dot plots, which estimate is more likely to be accurate? Explain your reasoning.

4. Which class had better results?

7th grade:

66 66 68 69 69 69 70 70  71  73  73  80  84  85  90

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8th grade:

a. Which class had overall results?

b. Which class had greater variability in the results?

5. Each dot plot represents a sample of 100 data.

Sample 1:

Sample 2:

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1. Estimate the population means using these samples.

2. Based on the dot plots, which estimate is more likely to be accurate? Explain your reasoning.

6. A chemical engineer is trying to increase the amount of the useful product in a

reaction. She performs the reaction with her new equipment 10 times and gets the following
amounts of the useful product: amount of useful product in grams
47.1 48.2 48.3 47.5 48.1 48.5 47.2 48.2 48.4 48.3

What proportion of the reactions were above the 48 grams threshold?