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Level 3
1. A police officer recorded the travel speeds, in
miles per hour, of traffic on a major arterial road.
The histogram to the left shows the number of
vehicles driving at each speed. Which statement best
compares the mean and the median of the data?
A. There is no mean value for this data.
B. The mean is greater than the median.
C. The median is greater than the mean.
D. The mean and median are approximately equal.
7. The cost of each house in New Mexico is summarized in the histogram below. Houses that are worth more than
1 million dollars are not shown due to space limitations. Above 1 million dollars, the number of houses continues
to decrease steadily as the cost increases. What is the range of house costs?
A. 0
B. 150 thousand
C. 1,000 thousand
D. There is not enough information to determine the range.
8. The age distributions of males and females
in Chicago is shown in the bar graph at left.
People aged 19 or younger are called
"children," people aged 20 to 59 are called
"adults," and people aged 60 or older are called
"seniors." According to the data shown, which
of the following is true?
A. The percentage of male children is less
than the percentage of female children, but the
percentage of male adults is greater than the
percentage of female adults.
B. The percentage of male children is greater
than the percentage of female children, and the
percentage of male adults is greater than the
percentage of female adults.
C. The percentage of male children is less
than the percentage of female children, but
there is not enough information to compare the percentage of male adults to the percentage of female adults.
D. The percentage of male children is greater than the percentage of female children, but there is not enough
information to compare the percentage of male adults to the percentage of female adults.
9. Students at schools in different states calculated the volume of snow that it took to fill one cup of water after the
snow had melted. Their results, in cups, were:
3.7, 3.0, 3.9, 2.5, 2.5, 2.2
To the nearest tenth of a cup, how much greater was the mean than the median of their calculations?
10. The table below partially summarizes the percent of residents in different counties who participate in
performing arts at least once a month. The percentages have a range of 12.9%. What could be the percentage
of county G residents who participate in performing arts at least once a month?
11. In a large city, each home was surveyed to see
how many rooms it had. The bar graph at left shows
the results. If a construction company in the city were
to build 22,000 4-room homes, the median number of
rooms would decrease by 1. Due to a shortage of
supplies, the construction company decides to build
22,000 3-room homes instead. These are the only
homes being built, so the data is not affected by
anything else. By how much will the median number
of rooms decrease?
13. Both dot plots below show the years on which various New Zealand wineries were founded. The first dot plot
rounds these values to the nearest 10 years and the second dot plot rounds these values to the nearest 20 years. If
we calculate the mean, median, and range based on each of the dot plots and not from the original data used to
generate them, which of them will differ from the first dot plot to the second?
A. None will differ.
B. Mean only
C. Mean and median only
D. Mean, median, and range
21. The number of structures built in each decade in Denver County is shown in the histogram below. Data for
years before 1940 or after 2009 was not collected. Which of the following statements about the shape of the
number of structures built is true?
A. It is bell-shaped because most structures were built in the 1950-1959 decade.
B. It is bell-shaped because most structures were built in the 1970-1979 decade.
C. There is little variance in the shape.
D. There is a lot of variance in the shape.
Level 4
25. A student repeatedly tests the solubility of dibutyl phthalate, a chemical used in plastic, in water. The results,
in moles of dibutyl phthalate per liter of water are: 5.2 ∙ 10−5 , 3 ∙ 10−5 , and 3.5 ∙ 10−5 .
The student calculates the mean and median of the results, then reads on the safety sheet for the chemical that
its solubility is 1.4 ∙ 10−4 moles per liter of water. How would the mean and median change if the student
includes the solubility from the safety sheet in the calculations?
A. They will both decrease, but the mean will decrease more.
B. They will both decrease, but the median will decrease more.
C. They will both increase, but the mean will increase more.
D. They will both increase, but the median will increase more.
27. The dot plot to the left depicts the heights in inches of
players on a professional basketball team. What would
happen to the standard deviation of the data set if the lowest
and highest heights were removed?
A. It would increase.
B. It would decrease.
C. It would remain the same.
D. There is not enough information to determine the impact on the standard deviation of the data set.
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28. A farmer recorded the total fresh yield, in kilograms per hectare (ℎ𝑎), of
several varieties of onion crops. The table at left gives the results. If the farmer tried
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29. Land surveyors visited a small fishing village and divided the land into plots, each 120 square meters in area.
They counted the number of dwellings on each plot and recorded their data in the bar graph below. Due to
people moving away from the village, some residents are now combining dwellings together in order to create
larger ones. If this is the only change being made to the data, then which of the following must be true when
the land is surveyed again?
33. The histograms to the left show the test results of two
different 11th grade history classes on the same exam. Which
statement best compares the standard deviations of the two data
sets?
A. The standard deviation of the scores from class A is greater
than the standard deviation of the scores from class B.
B. The standard deviation of the scores from class B is greater
than the standard deviation of the scores from class A.
C. The standard deviation of the scores from class A is equal to
the standard deviation of the scores from class B.
D. There is not enough information to compare the two standard
deviations.
34. A candidate in a local election analyzed the voter data for 7 of the towns where she was on the ballot. If the
median number of votes that she received from the 7 towns was 421, then which statement must be true about
this election?
A. The total number of votes the candidate received in all 7 towns was 2947.
B. The total number of votes the candidate received in each of the 7 towns was 60.
C. The candidate received at least 421 votes in at least 4 of the 7 towns.
D. The candidate received exactly 421 votes in 2 of the 7 towns.
38. The four dot plots below show the student height distributions of four different 11th grade math classes. In
which of the data sets is the mean greater than the median?
39. A survey in Boston measures the highest grade level that each person of age 30 or over has reached. Grades
13-16 represent college, and grades 17-20 represent advanced degrees. The number of people at each grade
level is expressed as a percentage of the total population, as shown below. A new tutoring program will cause
some people who did not reach grade 16 to reach grade 16. If this is the only change that occurs in the data,
then which of the following must be true?
41. The table to the left partially records the numbers of pairs of socks
manufactured by a company each quarter. If the median of all 9 quarters
is 11,830, and the range is the same with and without quarter I, which of
the following could be the number of pairs of socks manufactured in
quarter I?
A. 8,962
B. 10,816
C. 12,739
D. 15,511
43. The change in students' pulse rates after an activity was measured in beats per minute. In one group of
students, the activity was running. In the other group of students, the activity was sitting. Both groups had
roughly the same number of students. For the running group, the measurements were rounded to the nearest 5
beats per minute. Which of the following statements correctly compares the variance of the change in pulse
rate of both groups?
A. The variance of the running group is greater.
B. The variance of the sitting group is greater.
C. The variances of the groups are within 55 beats
per minute of each other.
D. There is not enough information to compare
the variances of the two groups.