Data Analysis Exercises
Data Analysis Exercises
A. $2.55
B. $3.10
C. $3.30
D. $3.50
3.
A. 8 million
B. 68 million
C. 83 million
D. 130 million
2.
A. 130,000
B. 580,000
C. 1,725,000
D. 58,000,000
4. C. 2000
D. 2006
6.
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.
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 B 3 5 letters 49
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.
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?
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
18 1
19 2
20 3
21 6
26.
22 𝑟
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.
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
Per pupil
Year
expenditure
2008 $11,223
2009 $11,665
2010 $11,825
2011 $11,864
2012 $11,735
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