Learning Folder Activity 2

1) A researcher measured the temperature of a city over the course of a year.

Considering the graph below, what is the median temperature, the maximum and
minimum temperatures, and what are the values between which most
temperatures tend to occur in this city, that is, the interquartile range?

a) Median = ca. 57oF;

Minimum = ca. 66o F and Maximum = ca. 75oF;
Q1 = ca. 66o F and Q3 = ca. 75o F.
b) Median = ca. 75oF;
Minimum = ca. 57o F and Maximum = ca. 80oF;
Q1 = ca. 57o F and Q3 = ca. 75o F.
c) Median = ca. 70oF;
Minimum = ca. 57o F and Maximum = ca. 80oF;
Q1 = ca. 66o F and Q3 = ca. 75o F.

2) Indicate three types of location measures:

a) Range, variance, and standard deviation, that is, numbers that tell us how
much variability there is in the data.
b) Mode, mean, and median, that is, numbers that tell us how much variability
there is in the data.
c) Mode, mean, and median, that is, three types of numbers that tell us
where the center of the distribution is located.

3) Indicate three types of dispersion measures:

 a) Range, variance, and standard deviation, that is, numbers that tell us
how much variability there is in the data.
b) Mode, mean, and median, that is, numbers that tell us how much variability
there is in the data.
c) Mode, mean, and median, that is, three types of numbers that tell us where
the center of the distribution is located.

4) What is variance?
a) Variance indicates the direction of the relationship between two variables. A
positive covariance means that both variables increase together or decrease
together. A negative covariance means that when one variable increase, the
other one decreases.
b) Variance is a measurement of the spread between numbers in a data
set.
c) Variance measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is
calculated as the square root of the standard deviation.

5) What is standard deviation?

a) Standard deviation indicates the direction of the relationship between two
variables. A positive covariance means that both variables increase together
or decrease together. A negative covariance means that when one variable
increase, the other one decreases.
b) Standard deviation a measurement of the spread between numbers in a data
set.
c) Standard deviation measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its
mean and is calculated as the square root of the variance.

6) What formula is used to calculate variance?

a) .

b) or the square root of standard deviation.

( x−x )
c)
σ

7) A garden contains 39 plants. The following plants were chosen at random, and
their heights were recorded in cm: 38, 51, 46, 79, and 57. Calculate their
heights’ standard deviation.