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AP Stats Lessons 1.1 to 1.2 Quiz
1. A car loan application requires a person to give the following information: annual salary amount, length of time at
current job, state issuing driver’s license, car insurance company, and number of years driving. Of these variables,
which are categorical?
A) annual salary amount, car insurance company
B) state issuing driver’s license, car insurance company
C) only car insurance company
D) annual salary amount, length of time at current job, number of years driving
E) None of these are categorical variables.
2. A used car dealership has the following inventory for different brands of cars. What percent of the cars are
Japanese (Honda or Toyota)?
12
11
10
Frequency
7
0
Honda Toyota GM Chrysler Ford
Car Brand
A) 12%
B) 21%
C) 22.5%
D) 30%
E) 52.5%
3. The mosaic plot shows the relative frequency of each grade level for three varsity sports teams at a local high
school. Which of the following statements must be true?
A) For the basketball team, there were more 10th graders than 11th graders.
B) There were fewer 12th graders on the volleyball team than 10th graders on the basketball team.
C) For the football team, there are more 9th graders than any other grade level.
D) There were the same number of 12th graders on the volleyball team as were on the football team.
E) For the volleyball team, there were fewer 10th graders than 11th graders.
4. The following graph shows the percent of mobile phone users in the United States who have iPhone versus
Android. Which of the following statements is false?
A) There is a higher percent of mobile users that have iPhones than Androids.
B) The percent of mobile phone users who have iPhone is more than double the percent of mobile phone users
who have Android.
C) The graph is misleading because the vertical axis does not start at 0% .
D) The graph is misleading because the bars are being represented with images of different widths.
E) Type of mobile phone is a categorical variable.
5. An online survey collected results from 100 people, who were classified by region and whether they preferred
Chicago-style pizza or New York style pizza. Which of the following is true?
Region
East West
Midwest South Total
Coast Coast
Chicago
5 10 15 12 42
Pizza style
Preference New York
25 10 5 18 58
style
Total 30 20 20 30 100
A) For each region, more than half of the people in that region preferred New York style pizza.
B) The percent of people who prefer Chicago style pizza is greater for people from the South than for people from
the West Coast.
C) More than half of the 100 people in the survey are from the East Coast and prefer New York style pizza.
D) Of the four regions, people from the South had the highest proportion who preferred Chicago style pizza.
E) Of the four regions, people from the East Coast had the highest proportion who preferred New York style pizza.
6. A recent study of 5,031 U.S. adults investigated the consumption rates for different types of content created by
influencers and online content creators. The table and bar graph show the percent of adults surveyed who
indicated they consume the content for each category.
Content Percent
Comedy 42
Music 38
Food 31
Film and TV 29
Advice and Self-help 28
Animal and Nature 28
Health and Fitness 26
a. About how many adults in the survey indicated they consume content in the Music category?
b. Would it be appropriate to make a pie chart to display this data? Explain.
7. Mrs. Gallas’ AP Statistics class is wondering if Mrs. Gallas drinking coffee during first hour affects whether or not
she remembers to play the morning announcements. For 55 days, the class tracks whether or not Mrs. Gallas
drinks coffee during first hour and whether or not she remembers to play the morning announcements. The
results are shown in the table.
Drinks Coffee?
Yes No
Yes 32 12
Plays
Announcements?
No 8 3
a. What is the explanatory variable? What is the response variable?
b. What percent of the days does Mrs. Gallas play the announcements?
c. What percent of the days does Mrs. Gallas not drink coffee and not play the announcement?
d. When Mrs. Gallas does drink coffee, what percent of the days does Mrs. Gallas play the announcements?
e. Is there an association between whether or not Mrs. Gallas drinks coffee and whether or not she plays the
announcements? Explain.
8. A CBS News survey was conducted with a random sample of 1,612 U.S. adult residents. One question on the
survey asked respondents to identify their favorite type of music. The results are shown in the table.
Type of Music Frequency Relative frequency
Rock 516
Pop 242
Hip Hop/Rap 226
Country 193
Other 435
a. Identify the variable. Is it quantitative or categorical?
b. Complete the table by calculating relative frequencies for each type of music.
c. Make a segmented bar graph showing relative frequencies.