GSE Accelerated Pre-Calculus

Unit 9 Assessment Review

Part I: Multiple Choice. Choose the one best answer.

1. The following is a histogram of test scores. Which of the following statements are true?

I. The middle (median) score was 75.

II. If the passing score was 60, most students failed.
III. More students scored between 50 and 60 than between 90 and 100.

A) I only
B) II only
C) III only
D) II and III
E) I, II, and III

2. A class of 12 students took their first practice test. The scores earned by the students are shown below.

Later, it is determined that the student who scored a 1 used a pen instead of a pencil, making the score invalid. If the
score of 1 is removed from the set, which of the following measures would change the most?

A) Mean
B) Median
C) Mode
D) Range
E) IQR

3. The histogram displays the frequencies of waiting times, in minutes, for 175 patients in a
dentist’s office. Which value below could be the median?

A) 2.50
B) 7.25
C) 12.25
D) 15.00
E) 17.50

4. The stem-and-leaf plot shown displays the times of 11 contestants in a footrace, where each stem represents seconds and
each leaf represents tenths of a second. Which of the following measures can be determined from the plot?

I. The mode
II. The median
III. The mean

A) I only
B) II only
C) I and II only
D) II and III only
E) I, II, and III

5. The lifespans of all microwave ovens sold in the United States are approximately Normally distributed with a mean of 8
years and a standard deviation of 1.4 years. What percentage of microwave ovens in the U.S. last more than 10 years?

A) 7.7%
B) 9.1%
C) 11.5%
D) 20.2%
E) 90.8%
6. In 1965, the mean price of a new car was $2,650 and the standard deviation was $1,000. In 2011, the mean was $30,500
and the standard deviation was $9,000. If a Ford Mustang cost $2,300 in 1965 and $28,000 in 2011, in which year was
it more expensive relative to other cars?

A) 1965, because the standardized score is greater than in 2011.

B) 1965, because the standard deviation is smaller.
C) 2011, because the standardized score is greater than in 1965.
D) 2011, because $28,000 is greater than $2,300.
E) We cannot compare the two prices, because we don’t know if the prices for each year are Normally distributed.

7. The weights of adult male Labrador Retrievers are approximately Normally distributed with a mean of 87 pounds and a
standard deviation of 8 pounds. Which of the following statements is true?

A) About 95% of adult male Labrador Retrievers weigh between 79 and 95 pounds.
B) The median weight of adult male Labrador Retrievers is more than 87 pounds.
C) Almost all adult male Labrador retrievers weight more than 79 pounds.
D) The proportion of adult male Labrador Retrievers that weigh less than 80 pounds is approximately equal to the
proportion that weigh more 94 pounds.
E) The standardized values for an 80-pound and 94-pound adult male Labrador Retrievers are equal.

8. The boxplot displays the total snowfall (in inches) for 13 cities last winter. Which of the
following statements must be true?

I. The mode is less than the mean.

II. The median is 43 inches.
III. The interquartile range is 36 inches.

A) I only
B) II only
C) III only
D) I and III only
E) II and III only

9. Which of the following properties is true for all Normal density curves?

I. They are symmetric.

II. The curve reaches its peak at the mean.
III. 95% percent of the area under the curve is within one standard deviation of the mean.

A) I only
B) II only
C) I and II only
D) I and III only
E) All three statements are correct.

10. The stem plot to the right shows the number of home runs hit by each of the 30 Major League Baseball
teams in 2011. Home run totals above what value should be considered outliers?

A) 257
B) 229
C) 222
D) 210 Key: 14|8 is a team
E) 173 with 148 home runs.

11. In a standard Normal distribution, what proportion of values are less than 0.54?

A) 0.2946
B) 0.7054
C) 0.0778
D) 0.9222
E) This proportion cannot be determined without the mean and standard deviation.
Part II: Short Answer. Show all work!

12. Lance the barber charges $32 for a shave and haircut and $20 for just a haircut. Based on experience, he determines that
the probability that a randomly selected customer comes in for a shave and a haircut is 0.85, the rest of his customers
come in for just a haircut. Let T = what Lance charges a randomly-selected customer.

a. Give the probability distribution for T.

b. Find the mean of T, . Show work.

c. Interpret in one sentence.

d. Find the standard deviation of T, . Show work.

13. Kathy and her brother Clay recently ran in a local marathon. The distribution of finishing times for women was
approximately Normal with mean 259 minutes and standard deviation 32 minutes. The distribution of finishing times for
men was approximately Normal with mean 242 minutes and standard deviation 29 minutes.

a. The finishing time for Clay was 289 minutes. Calculate and interpret the standardized score for Clay’s marathon time.
Show your work.

b. The finishing time for Kathy was 272 minutes. What proportion of women who ran the marathon had a finishing
time less than Kathy’s? Show your work.

c. The standard deviation of finishing time is greater for women than for men. What does this indicate about the
finishing times of the women who ran the marathon compared to the finishing times of the men who ran the
marathon?
14. The paper “The Acid Rain Controversy: The Limits of Confidence” ( American Statistician) gave the following data on
average SO2 (sulfur dioxide) emission rates from utility and industrial boilers (in pounds per million Btu) for 20 states.

2.3, 2.7, 1.5, 1.5, 0.3, 0.6, 3.8, 1.3, 1.2, 0.4, 0.5, 2.2, 0.8, 1.2, 0.2, 1.0, 0.7, 0.2, 1.4, 0.7

a. Construct a histogram to display the data set. Use a bin size of 0.5 ppm.

b. Describe the distribution.

15. Janelle collected data on the amount of time in minutes each person in a large sample of customers spend in a local store.
That data also included recording the gender of each customer. These data were used to generate the plots shown below.

Compare the two distributions.