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Data Analysis Exercises

The document presents various mathematical problems involving data interpretation, scatterplots, and statistical calculations related to gas prices, album sales, college enrollment, exam scores, ticket prices, and more. It includes multiple-choice questions that require approximations and predictions based on provided graphs and tables. The problems cover a range of topics including averages, medians, modes, and probabilities.

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Data Analysis Exercises

The document presents various mathematical problems involving data interpretation, scatterplots, and statistical calculations related to gas prices, album sales, college enrollment, exam scores, ticket prices, and more. It includes multiple-choice questions that require approximations and predictions based on provided graphs and tables. The problems cover a range of topics including averages, medians, modes, and probabilities.

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1.

Sam monitored gas prices at her local gas station


throughout 2014. The scatterplot above shows the price
𝑔, in dollars, for 1 gallon of gas on various days of the
year, where 𝑑 represents days since January 1, 2014. A
function that models the data is shown on the graph.
Which of the following best approximates the price for 1
gallon of gas on September 12, 2014, the 255𝑡ℎ day of
the year?

A. $2.55
B. $3.10
C. $3.30
D. $3.50

3.

The scatterplot to the left shows the number, 𝑁, of rock


albums sold in millions in the United States (US) from
2008 to 2014. A line of best fit is shown on the graph.
According to the model, if this trend continues, which of
the following best predicts the number of rock albums
sold in the US in 2016 ?

A. 8 million
B. 68 million
C. 83 million
D. 130 million

2.

The scatterplot above shows the number of college


students, 𝑛, in millions, who enrolled in at leasts one
online-course from 2002 to 2011, where 𝑡 represents
years since 2002. A best fit line that approximates the
data is also shown on the scatterplot. Which of the
following is closest to the yearly increase in online
college student enrollment from 2002 to 2011 ?

A. 130,000
B. 580,000
C. 1,725,000
D. 58,000,000
4. C. 2000
D. 2006

6.

The scatterplot above shows the final exam scores in


English and Math for seven students. What is the English
final exam score for the student who received the
greatest Math final exam score?

A. 35
B. 40
C. 80
D. 90

5.

7.
In the scatterplot above, each point represents the
number of cases decided by the United States Supreme
Court during a particular year. According to the line of
best fit, which of the following best approximates the
year in which the number of cases decided by the United
States Supreme Court was estimated to be 100 ?

A. 1994
B. 1996
9.

8.

10.
11. Question 13 and 14 refer on the following information

The table below shows the prices of the six different cell
phones that a store carries.

The length of the land boundary (in thousands of


kilometers) of each country in South America is shown
above. Each value is rounded to the nearest thousand
kilometers. According to the dot plot, what are the
range, median, mode, and average of land boundary
lengths, in thousands of kilometers?

13.
What is the average price of the cell phones?

A. $69.99
B. $79.99
C. $89.99
D. $99.99

12.
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Which statement is true about the average, median, and
mode of the 11 numbers listed above?
A. The average, median, and mode are all different.
B. The average and median are the same, but the
mode is different. 14.
C. The average and mode are the same, but the What is the median price of the cell phones?
median is different
A. $69.99
D. The average, median, and mode are all the same
B. $79.99
C. $89.99
D. $99.99
15. 17.

Archive Number of distinct languages Letter count Number of words listed

Archive A 111 4 letters 12

Archive B 3 5 letters 49

Archive C 136 6 letters 12

Archive D 26 7 letters 9

Archive E 53 8 letters 1

Archive F 258
On a message board, participant listed words whose
Archive G 17 letters are all in alphabetical order, such as “almost.”
The table above lists the number of words they listed
with each letter count. What was the median letter
A linguistics library contains several archives of language
samples. The table above shows the number of distinct count of the words they listed?
languages referenced in each archive. What is the range
of numbers of distinct languages referenced?

18.
If the average of 6, 6, 12, 16, and x is equal to x, what is
16.
the value of x?
A. 6
B. 8
C. 10
D. 12
19. 21.

Day Ticket price Speed (mph) Frequency

Monday $56 117 1

Tuesday $45 119 3

Wednesday $45 120 1

Thursday $73 121 4

Friday $73 123 1

Saturday $73 125 2

Sunday $56 126 1

127 6
The price of a ticket to a concert varies depending on
the day of the week, as shown in the table above. How
A golfer measured the speed, in miles per hour (mph) of
much greater is the mean ticket price than the median several drives with the same golf club. The frequency
ticket price in dollars, to the nearest cent?
table above tells how often each speed occurred. What
is the median speed of the drives?

20. 22.
Robert is training for a track and field competition. The
finishing times, in minutes, for his practice runs last
month are listed below. What is the median of Robert’s
finishing times for last month, in minutes?

9.7 8.4 11.1 9.3 10.8 8.1 9.5

In the dot plot above, the length of the coastline of each A. 9.3
country in South America is shown in thousands of B. 9.4
kilometers (1000-km), rounded to the nearest thousand
C. 9.5
kilometers. According to the dot plot, what is the mean
D. 9.6
length of coastline, in thousands of kilometers?
23. 25.
Each of the 5 people had a blank card on which they
wrote a positive integer. If the average of these integers Year Number of Students Enrolled
is 15, what is the greatest possible integer that could be
on one of the cards? 1992 𝑥

1993 1552

1994 1238

1995 1459

1996 1351

The table above shows student enrollment at Weston


High School from 1992 through 1996. If the median
enrollment for the five years was 1351, and no two
24. years had the same enrollment, what is the greatest
possible value for 𝑥?
Time in minutes Number of runners

18 1

19 2

20 3

21 6
26.
22 𝑟

23 1 Month Civil aircraft produced

24 2 A 400

B ?
The time in minutes, rounded to the nearest minute, 𝑡,
that runners took to finish a 3-mile race is shown in the C 286
table to the above. If the mean finish time
D 350
was 21 minutes, what is the value of 𝑟 in this table?
A. 1 E 290
B. 2
C. 3
D. 6 The table above partially reports the numbers of civil
aircraft produced in the United States during the
course of 5 months. If there was a mean of 325 civil
aircraft produced during that time, how many were
produced in month B?
27. 28.
7
Day Ticket Price 6
5
Monday $256
4
Tuesday $345 3
2
Wednesday $345
1
Thursday $473 0
50 60 70 80 90 100
Friday $473
In a certain game, the only scores were 50, 60, 70, 80,
Saturday $473 90, and 100. The bar graph above shows the scores of 23
children who played this game. Which of the following
Sunday $256
correctly shows the order of the median, mode, and
average of the 23 scores?
The price of an airline ticket varies depending on the day
A. Average < Median < Mode
of the week, as shown in the table above. What is the
B. Average < Mode < Median
difference between the mean and the median ticket
C. Mode < Average < Median
prices, round to the nearest dollars?
D. Mode < Median < Average
A. $29
B. $99
C. $128
D. The mean and the median are equal
29. 31.

𝑘𝑔 Results of College Applications


Crop Yield (ℎ𝑎)
Attended Attended
A 46,400 private public
school school
B 75,000
Offered
C 75,930 37 144
Admission
D 53,130
Not offered
51 168
E 42,530 Admission

A farmer recorded the total fresh yield, in kilograms per The table above summarizes the results of 400
𝑘𝑔 applications handled by a team of admissions officers at
hectare (ℎ𝑎) of several varieties of onion crops. The
a particular college. If one of the students who were
table above gives the results. If the farmer tried a new offered admission is chosen at random, what is the
𝑘𝑔 probability that the students attended private school?
variety, with a 57,930 ℎ𝑎 yield, how would it affect the

median and mean of the crop yields? 144


A.
181
A. Both the median and the mean will increase.
37
B. Both the median and the mean will decrease. B.
181
C. The median will decrease by the mean will increase.
144
D. The median will increase, but the mean will decrease C.
400
37
D.
30. 400

Per pupil
Year
expenditure

2008 $11,223

2009 $11,665

2010 $11,825

2011 $11,864

2012 $11,735

The table above shows the annual average per pupil


educational expenditures in the United States from
2008 through 2012. What is the range of the per pupil
expenditures?
32. 4
A.
50
Reading preferences
10
B.
Novels Non-fiction 50
21
Male 16 34 C.
50
Female 31 19 28
D.
50
The table above summarizes the results of a survey of
100 adults about their preferences for leisure reading. If
one of the adults who prefer reading novels is chosen at
random, what is the probability that the person is male? 34.

16 Restaurant Policies on Glasses of Water


A.
47
Diners must Water given
31 ask automatically
B.
47
More
16 36 64
C. expensive
100
31 Less
D. 53 47
100 expensive

The table above summarizes the results of a survey of


200 restaurants regarding their policies for providing
glasses of water to diners. Restaurants were
33. characterized as more expensive or less expensive based
on the average cost of a meal. All 200 restaurants either
Drive to Walk to provided water automatically to diners at the start of a
Total meal or provided water only when diners asked for it. If
school school
a less expensive restaurant was chosen at random, what
Junior 3 25 28 is the probability that the restaurant’s policy was to
provide water only when diners asked for it?
Senior 15 7 22
36
Total 18 32 50 A.
89
53
The table above shows the distribution of age and year B.
89
in school for 50 students who answered a survey in the
school newspaper asking about the most frequent way 47
C.
students get to school. If one of the survey respondents 100
is chosen at random, what is the probability that the 53
person chosen is either a junior who drives to school or a D.
100
senior who walks to school?
35. animal is either a cat under 1 year old or a dog 1 year old
or older?
People on a First-Name Basis with Neighbors
2
None 1 or 2 3 or 5 More than 5 Total A.
53
City A 7 11 12 20 50 12
B.
City B 5 17 12 16 50 53
27
Total 12 28 24 36 100 C.
53
32
The data in the table above were produced by a D.
53
sociologist studying relations between neighbors in two
cities. Fifty people from each of two cities were asked
how many of their neighbors (defined as people living on 37.
the same street) they knew on a first-name basis. If a
person is chosen at random from those who were on a
Sugar content
first-name basis with 3 or more neighbors, what is the
probability that the person is from City B? Contains
Contains
Drink type no
16 sugar
A. sugar
50
28 Carbonated
B.
50 Non-carbonated
28
C. Total 84 72
60
60
D. The incomplete table above summarizes the number of
100
carbonated and non-carbonated drinks by sugar content
for sales by a concession stand at a high-school football
36. game. Twice as many non-carbonated drinks containing
sugar were sold as carbonated drinks containing sugar,
Pet Adoptions and three times as many carbonated drinks containing
no sugar were sold as non-carbonated drinks containing
Cats Dogs Total
no sugar. If the concession stand sold a total of 84 drinks
Under 1 year old 4 23 27 containing sugar and 72 containing no sugar, which of
the following is closest to the probability that a non-
1 year old or older 18 8 26 carbonated drink chosen at random contained sugar?

Total 22 31 53 A. 0.757
B. 0.667
The table above shows the distribution of animal type C. 0.600
and age for all of the pets adopted at an animal shelter D. 0.586
during a particular month. If one of the adopted animals
is chosen at random, what is the probability that the

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