Alg 1 Chapt 10 Quiz and Test Ans
Alg 1 Chapt 10 Quiz and Test Ans
1. Find the mean, median, and mode for the data set. mean: 252; median:
The weights in pounds of 5 offensive linemen of a football team: 245; mode: none
1. ______________________
217, 212, 285, 245, 301
The mode may be best
2. Analyze the situation in order to determine which measure of center best because it represents
describes the data. Explain. half the data.
2. ______________________
The ratings for a new recipe website varied from very low, 1 point, to very high,
10 points, with half of the scores receiving a rating of 7.
Part I Write the letter for the correct answer in the blank at the right of each question.
1. Find the mean of {16, 19, 22, 27, 33, 19, 25}. C
1. ________________
A 19 B 22 C 23 D 27
2. In the singing competition that involved 50 contestants, Amy’s score ranked higher than
40 of the contestants. In what percentile did Amy score?
F 40th G 50th H 75th J 80th J
2. ________________
3. A commercial real estate company employs 60 leasing agents that earn between $50,000
and $100,000 per year. The CEO of the company earns $2,500,000 per year. Which B
measure would be best to describe the average annual salary of all of the employees of 3. ________________
the company?
A mean
B median
C mode
D range
4. Describe the center and spread of the data using the more appropriate statistics, either H
the mean and standard deviation or the five-number summary. 4. ________________
{1, 12, 2, 9, 2, 3, 7, 3, 3, 6}
F mean = 4.8; standard deviation ≈ 3.4
G mean = 4.8; standard deviation ≈ 3.6
H median = 3; range: 1–12; interquartile range: 2-7
J median = 3; range: 2–7; interquartile range: 1-12
Part II
Find the mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation of the data set
that is obtained after adding the given constant to each value. 25.9; 21.5; 17; 30; 10.3
3. ______________________
3. 12, 15, 16, 12, 12, 15, 17, 19, 22, 27, 42, 42; 5
4. 49, 43, 26, 39, 40, 30, 33, 64, 26, 45, 23, 26; –8 29; 28; 18; 41; 11.6
4. ______________________
The seventh and eighth graders at Lakeview Junior High School are planning
to adopt a new school mascot. The district asked a representative group of
students to vote for one of the three mascot finalists, and to indicate to which
grade they belong. The results are shown in the table.
School Mascot Vote Results
th th
7 Graders 8 Graders Total
Panthers 30 36 66
Hornets 17 33 50
Lions 28 31 59
Total 75 100 175
1. Of the students who voted for Hornets, how many of them are 7th graders? 17
1. ________________
34%
4. ________________
4. To the nearest whole, what percent of all the students voted for Lions?
th
45 percentile
2. ______________________
Ms. Freemont recently gave her 20 students a 90-point test. The test scores are
shown in the table.
86 82 77 74 75 83 75 82 88 68
73 74 77 88 71 74 76 70 68 71
The histogram shows the daily high temperatures of Springfield during the
month of July.
5
5. ______________________
5. How many days had high
temperatures above 89°F?
6. ______________________
55%
6. What percent of the days in
July had a high temperature of at
most 84°F? Round to the nearest
whole number of percent.
symmetric
7. Use a graphing calculator to construct a histogram for the data, and use it to 7. ______________________
determine the shape of the distribution.
{77, 79, 98, 65, 78, 83, 72, 95, 69, 102, 81, 81, 53, 39}
mean: 19.25;
8. Describe the center and spread of the data using either the mean and standard standard deviation:
deviation or the five-number summary. Justify your choice by constructing a ≈ 2.66
box-and-whisker plot for the data. 8. ______________________
{19, 19, 24, 21, 19, 20, 20, 18, 17, 22, 24, 15, 15, 21, 17, 17}
negatively skewed
NAME _____________________________________________ DATE ____________________________ PERIOD _____________
11. RETAIL The wholesale prices of 10 toys are given below. If the retail prices
12.2; 23.5; 19; 19; 5.4
10. _____________________
are the result of a 30% markup of the wholesale prices, what is the median
retail price?
$12, $15, $28.75, $35, $9.50, $18, $19, $57.75, $116, $15
$24.05
11. _____________________
A local diner introduced two new menu options. They kept track of the first
250 customers who ordered one of the two items. The results of the study are
shown in the two-way frequency table.
Lunch Dinner Total
Club Sandwich 99 37
Buffalo Chicken Salad 81 33
Total
13. About what percentage of the customers who ordered the club sandwich 73%
13. _____________________
ordered it at lunchtime?
14. About what percentage of the customers ordered the buffalo chicken salad? 46%
14. _____________________
1. FOOD TRUCK The numbers of sandwiches sold during one work week by a
food truck is shown in the table. Find the mean, median, and mode.
Day M T W R F 226; 219; no mode
1. ______________________
Number of
177 219 194 227 313
Sandwiches
th
Mr. Singletary recently gave his 20 students a 40-point quiz. The quiz scores
50 percentile
2. ______________________
are shown in the table.
36 40 39 28 37 36 35 37 30 32
34 33 33 28 30 32 36 35 29 36
negatively skewed
NAME _____________________________________________ DATE ____________________________ PERIOD _____________
11. RETAIL The retail prices of eight handbags are given below. If all the prices
are reduced by 25% for a promotion, what is the new median price? $34.69
11. _____________________
$18, $38.50, $85, $14.99, $54, $70, $25.75, $63
12. TRAVEL A travel agency conducted a survey of 2000 people at a regional 916 respondents
12. _____________________
travel convention that had all recently vacationed. According to the survey,
52% of respondents used a travel agency to plan their vacation. 65% of those
who used a travel agency booked a cruise, while the other 35% used an
agency to book a different type of vacation. 25% of the respondents that did
not use a travel agency booked a cruise. Make a two-way frequency table.
How many respondents reported that they had gone on a cruise?
A fitness club surveyed 200 of its members to keep track of how the club is
being used for cardiovascular fitness. The results of the survey are shown in
the two-way frequency table.
Under 35 yrs. 36 yrs. and older Total
Fitness classes 82 30
Cardio equipment 22 66
Total
73%
13. _____________________
13. About what percentage of members taking fitness classes are
under 35 years old?
44%
14. _____________________
14. About what percentage of the members use cardio equipment?
Write the letter for the correct answer in the blank at the right of each question.
2. On her recent civil service examination, Tyneal scored in the 85th percentile. If 400 people G
2. ________________
took the test, then Tyneal’s score was higher than what number of scores?
F 320 G 340 H 350 J 375
A
3. ________________
3. Describe the shape of the distribution of {1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2}.
A positively skewed C symmetric
B negatively skewed D clustered
G
4. ________________
4. Find the interquartile range of the data set. {3, 9, 4, 8, 6, 1, 1, 7, 16}
F6 G 6.5 H 9.75 J 15
B
5. ________________
11. Which five-number summary or mean and standard deviation best describes the center and
B
11. ________________
spread of the following data set? 74, 71, 82, 75, 68, 80, 76, 70, 75, 64, 76, 69, 74, 78
A 74.5, 18 C 64, 74, 74.5, 75, 82
B 73.7, 4.7 D 64, 69, 73.7, 78, 82
12. The prices for six video games are given below. If all the video game prices are reduced G
12. ________________
by 25%, what is the new median price? $19.99, $24.99, $29.99, $9.99, $14.99, $17.99
F $7.49 G $14.24 H $18.99 J $19.66
The Fairmont Theatrical Group made the following two-way frequency table to keep
track of the tickets sold to their three musical performances.
Adult Child Total
Friday 458 108
Saturday 284 336
Sunday 395 205
Total
14. About what percentage of the tickets sold to Friday’s performance was adult tickets? J
14. ________________
F 19% G 40% H 46% J 81%
15. About what percentage of the tickets sold was for Sunday’s performance? B
15. ________________
A 32% B 34% C 35% D 66%
Write the letter for the correct answer in the blank at the right of each question.
2. On a recent standardized test, Ahmed scored in the 90th percentile. If 2800 people took the test,
then Ahmed’s score was higher than what number of scores?
F
2. ____________
F 2520 G 2600 H 2650 J 2720
3. The number of daily red light violations for two weeks were
8, 3, 3, 5, 11, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 4, 6, 3, 2. B
Which best describes the distribution of this data? 3. ____________
A symmetric distribution C negatively skewed distribution
B positively skewed distribution D simple distribution
6. The table shows the weights of packages at a warehouse. Which of the following describes the
J
6. ____________
type of data and appropriate graph for this data set?
118 145 176 102 127
115 134 109 201 104
The dot plot shows the number of students of different ages enrolled in a local
Tae Kwon Do class.
7. What is the most frequent age? C
7. ____________
A7 C 12
B 10 D 14
8. How many students are at least 10 years of age? G
8. ____________
F4 H 18
G 16 J 22
11. Which five-number summary or mean and standard deviation best describes the center and C
11. ________________
spread of the following data set?
35, 42, 37, 41, 39, 44, 37, 39, 41, 40, 45, 38, 34, 37
A 39.2, 2.5 C 34, 37, 39, 41, 45
B 39, 11 D 34, 38, 39.2, 40, 45 G
12. ________________
12. The prices for six books are given below. If all the prices are reduced by 50%, what is the
new median price? $12.75, $14.80, $19.99, $9.95, $16.00, $17.95
F $7.40 G $7.70 H $15.24 J $15.40
C
13. ________________
13. The box-and-whisker plots depict two sets of data.
The Swanson family made the following two-way frequency table to keep track of the
sandwiches served at their family reunion.
15. About what percentage of the sandwiches served was on whole wheat?
A 37% B 47% C 53% D 65% B
15. ________________