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Unit Test: Data Management Concepts

The document is a unit test focused on data management, including questions about sampling methods, data analysis, and graphical representation. It requires students to analyze math test scores, identify outliers, and create visual data displays. Additionally, it includes tasks related to snowfall data and sports preferences among boys and girls.

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Unit Test: Data Management Concepts

The document is a unit test focused on data management, including questions about sampling methods, data analysis, and graphical representation. It requires students to analyze math test scores, identify outliers, and create visual data displays. Additionally, it includes tasks related to snowfall data and sports preferences among boys and girls.

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Master 5.16a Unit Test: Unit 5


Data Management

1. In each case, are the data collected from a sample or a census? Justify your answer.
a) To find the favourite activity of children in a summer camp, each child was surveyed.

b) To find the average annual salary of government workers, some employees in every branch
of the government were surveyed.

2. Here are the math test marks for Grade 8 students at Grovsnor School: 78, 56, 73, 69, 82, 30, 55,
47, 60, 21, 73, 49, 89, 93, 59, 76, 70, 88, 100, 73, 97, 50, 65, 77, 53, 62, 80, 91, 76, 83, 51, 62,
73, 84, 99, 68, 81, 85, 74, 96, 82, 69, 72, 97, 54, 48, 61

a) Complete the stem-and-leaf plot for these Math Test Marks


data.
Stem Leaf
b) i) Identify any outliers.

ii) Find the measures of central tendency


for the data with and without the
outliers.

iii) How is each measure of central tendency affected when the outliers are not included?

c) Complete the frequency table for these data.


Interval Frequency

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Master 5.16b Unit Test continued


d) What do you know from the stem-and-leaf plot that you do not know from
the frequency table?

e) Which type of graph would best display the data? Justify your choice.

f) Draw the graph you selected in part e.

g) What inferences can you make from the graph? Explain.

3. a) For each set of data, draw the most suitable graph. Justify your choice.

i) Minimum and Maximum Snowfalls for a City


Month Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. April
Maximum Snowfall (cm) 7 34 58 65 22 10
Minimum Snowfall (cm) 1 5 10 12 3 1

ii) Favourite Girls Boys iii) Fairlawn Carpentry


Sport March Budget
to Play Advertising $420
Baseball 6 7 Materials $8500
Volleyball 14 4 Labour $6400
Hockey 3 18 Other $900
Soccer 15 12
Basketball 9 7
Other 4 3

b) What can you infer from the data? How does each graph show this?

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