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Visualizing data

ONE-WAY TABLES

1. Identify the variables in the following data description and classify the
variables as categorical or quantitative. If the variable is quantitative, list
the units.

“The Indianapolis 500 is a car race that’s been taking place


since 1911 and is often scheduled to take place over Memorial
Day weekend. The race takes place at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway and a driver needs to complete 200 laps that cover
a distance of 500 miles. Race results are reported by driver
number, the driver’s name, the type of car the driver uses, and
the time to the nearest ten-thousandth of a second. If a driver
doesn’t finish the race, instead of the time to complete the
race, their number of laps completed is recorded.”

2. Casey is taking a survey of her senior class. She plans to ask the
seniors this question:

“In general do you think things have gotten better or worse for
our students over the course of the year?”

Her survey has a checklist with these responses: Better, Worse, Stayed the
same, and Don’t know. Who are the individuals in the survey? What type
of response variable is Casey looking for? Is it categorical or quantitative?
What is the level of measurement of the data?

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3. The graph below shows the age breakdown of Apple iPad owners in
the United States in February, 2011. Who are the individuals in the data?
What is the variable? Is it categorical or quantitative?

30%

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0%
Age 13-17 Age 18-24 Age 25-34 Age 35-44 Age 45-54 Age 55-64 Age 65+

Source: www.statista.com

4. The table below shows the number of rejected products by worker


and shift. Can the data be used to build a one-way table? Why or why not?
Is the number of rejected products a discrete or continuous quantitative
variable?

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Worker ID 1st shift 2nd shift 3rd shift

1123 42 45 42

2256 45 74 32

6435 36 78 41

5. Why is this table an example of a one-way data table?

Flavor Scoops sold Contains chocolate? Smooth or chunky?

Vanilla 300 No Smooth

Chocolate 450 Yes Smooth

Cookies & Cream 275 Yes Chunky

Mint Chocolate Chip 315 Yes Chunky

Fudge Brownie 375 Yes Chunky

Rocky Road 250 Yes Chunky

6. A botany student wants to test the claim of a diaper company that


their product may be used in a compost pile. He creates 12 identical
gardens and plants a random selection of 7 tomato plants in each one. He
plans to have a fellow student use traditional compost on 6 of the garden
plots and the compost from the diapers on the other 6. He does this so he
doesn’t know which plot is which. He plans to check the tomato plants for
disease every two days for a month, and record the number of tomato
plants with disease after each check. Would this experiment result in a
one-way data table? Why or why not?

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BAR GRAPHS AND PIE CHARTS

1. Both the bar graph and the table have missing information about the
number of bones each dog consumed at doggie daycare. Use the graph
and table together to fill in the missing pieces.

Dog Number of bones

T-Bone

Pepper 1

Cookie

Patches 5

Matty

Davy 2

3
Number of bones

0
T-Bone Pepper Cookie Patches Matty Davy

Dog

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2. Eric’s class went on a trip to an orchard. At the end of the trip they
counted how many pieces of fruit came from each type of tree and
graphed it in the bar graph shown below. Use the bar graph to create a pie
chart of the data.

60

50

40
Count

30

20

10

0
Apples Peaches Pears Plums

Fruit

3. A tourist company took a survey of 600 clients and asked them which
Italian city they were most interested in visiting. How many clients said
they wanted to visit Rome?

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31%

42%

27%

Rome
Florence
Venice

4. The pie chart shows how many ice cream cones of each flavor were
sold. Assuming 280 total ice cream cones were sold in August, convert the
pie chart to a bar graph.

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1/7
3/14

5/14
2/7

Strawberry
Chocolate
Vanilla
Peanut Butter

5. A company is analyzing the results from a recent survey about why


people left their employment. The results are shown in the data table
below. In general, is a bar graph or a pie chart a better choice to display
the data? Why?

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Reasons for leaving job

Reduced job duties 30%

Company restructuring 15%

Too much travel time 12%

Looking for more opportunity 11%

Need more personal time 9%

Poor expected company growth 8%

Job was contract or short term 8%

Need more of a challenge 5%

Other 2%

6. The comparison bar graph shows the growth of two pigs over their
first 6 months of life. Which pig grew the most between 4 and 5 months?

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400

350

300
Weight (in pounds)

250

200

150

100

50

0
Day 1 1 Week 1 Month 2 Months 3 Months 4 Months 5 Months 6 Months

Age

Runt Largest pig

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LINE GRAPHS AND OGIVES

1. Bethany started a sit-up program so that she can do 200 sit-ups in a


day. At the end of week 6 she’ll have completed 1,685 sit-ups. Create an
ogive of the data.

Week Number of sit-ups

Week 1 350

Week 2 455

Week 3 600

Week 4 540

Week 5 1,275

Week 6 1,685

2. The table shows passengers by year for Buster’s Bus Service. Create a
line graph of the data in the table.

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Year Passengers

2011 1,000

2012 500

2013 1,500

2014 2,000

2015 2,500

2016 1,500

3. Between what two consecutive years was there the largest increase in
car sales?

300

250

200

150

100

50

0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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4. Mrs. Moore gave her students a midterm exam, then she created this
ogive of the 45 exam scores. How many students got a score between 70 %
and 90 % ?

50

45

40
Number of students

35

30

25

20

15

10

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Exam score

5. Draw the line graph that corresponds to the ogive below.

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150

135

120

105

90

75

60

45

30

15

0
-15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 25

6. Sarah’s monthly sales to date are shown in the ogive. What is the
meaning of the circled point?

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Sarah’s Monthly Sales
900,000

800,000

700,000
Sales (in dollars)

600,000

500,000

400,000

300,000

200,000

100,000

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Month

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TWO-WAY TABLES

1. Create a comparison bar graph for the two-way table.

Favorite pet Fish Cat Dog Other

1st grade 8 15 7 9

2nd grade 13 10 12 5

2. A pizza parlor wants to know if the age range of their customers


affects pizza preferences. The pizza parlor asks each customer two
questions:

1. Which type of pizza is your favorite: pepperoni, cheese, supreme


or veggie?

2. What is your age range: Under 18, or 18 and over?

The results of the survey are as follows:

Of the 50 customers who prefer pepperoni pizza, 25 are under 18.

Of the 20 customers who prefer cheese pizza, 18 are under 18.

Of the 30 customers who prefer supreme pizza, 24 are over 18.

Of the 25 customers who prefer veggie pizza, 19 are over 18.

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Which type of table, one-way or two-way, can be created from the data
that the pizza parlor is collecting? Create the best type of frequency table
for the data.

3. An elementary school creates the following two-way table. What is


the best name for the row variable and what is the best name for the
column variable?

Walk School bus Day care vehicle Carpool

Pre-school 1 10 20 26

First 5 12 14 19

Second 10 22 5 15

Third 8 33 3 10

4. Decide whether a comparison bar graph or comparison line graph


would be better at displaying the data in the two-way table, then create
the graph.

Method of transportation

Walk School bus Day care vehicle Carpool

Pre-school 1 10 20 26

Grade in First 5 12 14 19
school Second 10 22 5 15

Third 8 33 3 10

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5. Eric creates a survey asking students who ate a snack in the morning
between classes if they felt sleepy or not. Given his survey results below,
create a two-way data table for Eric’s survey.

Snack Yes Yes No No No No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No

Sleepy Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes

6. Is a comparison line graph an appropriate visual display for the data


table, which shows monthly rainfall (in inches) for Dallas, Texas, January -
August? Why or why not? If it’s an appropriate display, create a
comparison line graph. If it’s not an appropriate display for the data,
create a comparison bar graph.

2015 2016 2017

January 3.62 1.04 4.39

February 2.96 2.20 2.33

March 2.53 2.67 1.06

April 5.56 4.60 3.38

May 16.96 6.25 0.70

June 3.95 3.60 8.44

July 0.92 3.89 4.12

August 0.46 4.42 4.24

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VENN DIAGRAMS

1. What does the Venn diagram show about how Calculus is related to
Physics and Mathematics?

2. Draw the Venn diagram for the number of humans in a room and the
number of frogs in a room, if the room has 12 frogs and 15 humans.

3. Students at Green Bow High School conducted a survey during lunch


time to see what kind of music the students at the school liked. They
recorded their results in a Venn diagram. How many students participated

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in the survey? What percentage of the students who participated did not
like Pop Music?

4. A survey team is collecting data on a type of minnow that lives where


a river meets the sea. They place nets in the river, where the river and sea
meet and where there is only sea. They count the minnows caught in each
net. What percent of the minnows were living in the brackish water?
Brackish water is water that’s a combination of fresh and saltwater.

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5. Fill in the Venn diagram using the following information.

18 people’s favorite exercise was swimming.

13 people’s favorite exercise was running.

10 people only liked weight lifting.

3 people liked swimming and weight lifting equally, but not running.

4 people liked running and weight lifting equally, but not swimming.

5 people liked running and swimming equally, but not weight lifting.

2 people liked all three equally.

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6. Eric creates a survey asking students who ate a snack in the morning
between classes if they felt sleepy or not. He organizes his survey results
into a two-way data table. Draw a Venn diagram for Eric’s survey results.

Do you feel sleepy?

Yes No Total

Yes 5 2 7
Did you
eat a No 3 5 8
snack?
Total 8 7 15

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FREQUENCY TABLES AND DOT PLOTS

1. The frequency table shows the number of seed packets sold by each
child during a pre-school fundraiser. Create a dot plot from the frequency
table.

Name Packets sold

Ivan 5

Stacy 6

Vanessa 3

Josh 8

Jamie 5

Kelly 7

Billy 10

Cassie 5

Tim 7

Kate 3

2. The dot plot shows the age of people who bought a bag of kale at a
grocery store. Create a frequency table from the dot plot.

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3. The following data shows the number of red marbles drawn in a class
lottery. Create a frequency table for the data.

0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 7, 7

4. The following data shows the favorite color of the students in


Sebastian’s kindergarten class. Create a frequency table for the data.

pink, pink, pink, pink, purple, purple, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, red,
red, red, yellow, orange, orange, green, green, green, black

5. Kevin watches birds from his window and records what kind he sees.
Create a dot plot from the data.

chickadee, redbird, redbird, redbird, chickadee, sparrow, sparrow,


sparrow, sparrow, blue jay, crow, crow, redbird, chickadee, sparrow,
sparrow, blue jay

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6. The dot plot shows the ages of people in a lifeguard class at the local
recreation center. How many people are enrolled in the class who are
either 16, 17, or 18 years old?

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RELATIVE FREQUENCY TABLES

1. Blake is surveying students in his class (made up of juniors and


seniors) about whether or not they play video games on a daily basis.
What type of relative frequency table is shown? Finish filling in the table.

Play at least one video Don’t play any video


Total
game daily games daily

Junior 23% 75%

Senior 14%

Total 100%

2. Create the row-relative frequency table for the frequency table below
displaying 9th grade students who participate in an after school activity,
and then answer the question: What percent of female 9th grade students
do not participate in an after school activity?

Participate Don’t participate

Male 62 40

Female 57 38

3. Create the column-relative frequency table for this data table and
then answer the question: What percentage of those who participate in an
after school activity are male?

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Participate Don’t participate

Male 62 40

Female 57 38

4. Create the total-relative frequency table for the data, and then answer
this question: Carl is in charge of creating an activity for the students in his
college dorm. If Carl wants the highest possible turnout, which activity
should he choose? Why?

Movie Bowling Pizza Party

Male 20 40 55

Female 35 50 62

5. A city hall is looking into a dangerous intersection that has caused


many bicycle accidents over the past month, due to rerouted traffic. They
have counted the number of bicycle accidents and put them into a
frequency table like the one below. Create the relative frequency table for
the data and answer the following question: What day had the highest
percentage of bicycle accidents?

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Day of the week Number of crashes

Sunday 13

Monday 10

Tuesday 8

Wednesday 6

Thursday 2

Friday 11

Saturday 14

6. Addie took a poll of the children in her neighborhood. She found that
15 of them watch 2 hours or more of cartoons per day. Out of the 15 that
watch 2 hours or more, 10 watched the cartoons on a device other than
the television. There were also 12 children who watched less than 2 hours
of cartoons per day. For those 12 children, 2 of them watched cartoons on
a device other than a television. Construct a two-way table to summarize
the data and then construct a total-relative frequency table for the data.

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JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS

1. To study the relationship between votes for a new park and people
who have children, a community group surveyed voters. What percentage
of those surveyed had children? Is this part of the joint, conditional, or
marginal distribution?

For Against No opinion

Children 125 50 30

No children 40 150 60

2. To study the relationship between votes for a new park and people
who have children, a community group surveyed voters. What percentage
of those surveyed were for the park and had children? Is this part of the
joint, conditional, or marginal distribution?

For Against No opinion

Children 125 50 30

No children 40 150 60

3. To study the relationship between votes for a new park and people
who have children, a community group surveyed voters. What percentage
of those with no children had no opinion? Is this part of the joint,
conditional, or marginal distribution?

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For Against No opinion

Children 125 50 30

No children 40 150 60

4. Carl is in charge of creating an activity for the students in his college


dorm, and he records their preferences by activity and gender. What
percentage of the female students prefer pizza? To answer the question,
should we use a marginal, joint, or conditional distribution?

Movie Bowling Pizza Party

Male 20 40 55

Female 35 50 62

5. A pharmaceutical company is testing heart burn as a side effect of its


new pain reliever. What conclusions can we draw from the marginal
distributions of the study?

Pain reliever Placebo Total

Minor heartburn 4 171 175

Major heartburn 102 25 127

No heartburn 10,568 10,478 21,046

Total 10,674 10,674 21,348

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6. Consider the same data as the previous question. What do the
conditional distributions (given the participant experienced minor
heartburn, major heartburn, or no heartburn) tell us about the study?

Pain reliever Placebo Total

Minor heartburn 4 171 175

Major heartburn 102 25 127

No heartburn 10,568 10,478 21,046

Total 10,674 10,674 21,348

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HISTOGRAMS AND STEM-AND-LEAF PLOTS

1. A doctor recorded the weight of all the babies that visited her clinic
last week. How many babies weighed no more than 24 pounds?

1 5578

2 246

3 56

5 26

6 0

1 | 5 = 15

2. The stem plot shows the number of clothing pieces on each rack at a
clothing store. Create a histogram from the stem plot, and use buckets of
size 10.

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1 0128

2 888

3 2689

4 444

5 26

6 0

1 | 0 = 10

3. Is it possible to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a histogram? Why or


why not?

4. A company mails out packets of dog treat samples based on a


consumer’s previous dog food purchases. How many times did the
company mail a packet of 11 − 15 treats?

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Number of dog treats per free sample
300

250

200

150

100

50

0
0-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30

Number of treats

5. A company mails out packets of dog treat samples based on a


consumer’s previous dog food purchases. How many packets of dog treat
samples did the company give out?

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Number of dog treats per free sample
300

250

200

150

100

50

0
0-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30

Number of treats

6. Create a stem-and-leaf chart from the list of student test scores.

60, 65, 80, 80, 81, 82, 88, 89, 90, 97, 98, 100, 100

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BUILDING HISTOGRAMS FROM DATA SETS

1. If the range of the data set is 36 and we want to divide it into 5 class
intervals, which of the following would be the most appropriate class
width?

2. Based on the histogram showing the distribution of the SAT scores for
students at a local high school, what number of students scored between
1,000 and 1,400?

150

120
130
Number of students

90
93

60
70

30 35

20
0
600-800 800-1,000 1,000-1,200 1,200-1,400 1,400-1,600

SAT score

3. If we set the first two classes for the data set below as 0 − 7 and 7 − 14,
how many data points will fall into the first interval?

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7, 3, 4, 12, 23, 34, 2, 13, 21, 8, 7

4. Considering the table below, what is the midpoint of the class that
includes the smallest number of the students?

Exam score Number of students

90 - 100 25

80 - 90 54

70 - 80 64

60 - 70 8

5. A literature teacher asked 50 of his students how many hours they


spent reading last week, then recorded his results in a table. What class
width did he use?

Hours spent reading Number of students

0-4 25

4-8 54

8 - 11 64

6. A math teacher asks 25 of her students how many hours they spent on
math homework last week. Given the responses below, build a histogram
with 6 bins that displays the data.

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4, 3, 5, 1, 0, 12, 11, 6, 4, 2, 13, 3, 7, 12, 9, 8, 10, 22, 13, 4, 5, 20, 1, 0, 7

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