College Prep 2nd semester review

Name: __________________________ Date: _____________

A)
B)
C)
D)

1.If two classes are 6 - 11 and 12 - 17, then the upper class limit of 6 - 11 is
5
10.5
11.5
12

A)
B)
C)
D)

2.What is the midpoint of the classes 13.517.3?

13.4
15.4
17.3
14.3

A)
B)
C)
D)

3.Greg wants to construct a frequency distribution for the political affiliation of the
employees at Owen's Hardware Store. What type of distribution should he use?
ungrouped
grouped
categorical
cumulative

A)
B)
C)
D)

4.For the numbers 7, 4, 9, and 2, which of the following that includes all four could be
a good class?
10 to 1
7 to 1
9 to 2
9 to 1
5.Which of the following could be a cumulative frequency graph?
A)
C)

B)

D)

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B)
C)
D)

6.The total frequency of the data whose ogive shown below is approximately
12
18
34
90

7.The total frequency of the data whose histogram is shown below

A)
B)
C)
D)

A)
B)
C)
D)

is approximately
11
20
50
100
8.Given the following frequency distribution, how many pieces of data were less than 28.5?
Class Boundaries
Frequencies
13.518.5
4
18.523.5
9
23.528.5
12
28.533.5
15
33.538.5
17
12
9
25
17

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9.What type of graph is the figure below?

A)
B)
C)
D)

A)
B)
C)
D)

Pareto chart
pictograph
ogive
pie graph
10.An automobile dealer wants to construct a pie graph to represent types of cars sold in
July. He sold 72 cars; 16 of which were convertibles. The convertibles will represent
how many degrees in the circle?
60
80
100
50

11.Construct a Pareto chart for the following distribution:

Year in School
Number of Students
Freshmen
24
Sophomores
15
Juniors
39
Seniors
18

A)
B)
C)
D)

12.Which type of graph represents the data by using vertical bars of various heights to
indicate frequencies?
ogive
frequency polygon
histogram
cumulative frequency

13.Construct a pie chart for the following distribution:

Year in School
Number of Students

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Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors

27
15
40
38

14.What kind of relationship does the scatter plot show between x and y?

A)
B)
C)
D)

A positive linear relationship

A negative linear relationship
No linear relationship
This is not a scatter plot
15.The data shown in the following stem and leaf plot

is
A)
B)
C)
D)

Strongly skewed left

Reasonably symmetric
More suitable to be put into a pie chart
Strongly skewed right

A)
B)
C)
D)

16.What is the mean of the following numbers?

4, 6, 9, 11, 15
6
8
9
10
17.What is the median of the following numbers?
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A)
B)
C)
D)

A)
B)
C)
D)

3, 5, 8, 10, 14
5
7
8
9
18.What is the midrange of the following numbers?
3, 9, 8, 10, 2, 10, 16, 16, 16
9
10
3
16

19.The median of {3, 10, 7, 6, 3} is

20.Find the variance and standard deviation of {1, 8, 6, 4, 6} show your work.

A)
B)
C)
D)

21.What is the mean of the following numbers?

9, 6, 2, 1, 3
6
3
2
1

A)
B)
C)
D)

22.What is the mode of the following numbers?

10, 4, 2, 2, 2, 0, 3
4
0
2
2

23.The mean of {5, 3, 3, 3, 5, 1} is

24.A student received the following grades: An A in Statistics (4 credits), a C in Physics II (5
credits), a B in Sociology (3 credits), a B in a Literature seminar (2 credits), and a D in
Tennis (1 credit). Assuming A = 4 grade points, B = 3 grade points, C = 2 grade points, D
= 1 grade point, and F = 0 grade points, the student's grade point average is:
A)
2.80
B)
3.13

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C)
D)

2.90
2.92

A)
B)
C)
D)

25.Determine the range for this data: 6, 19, 10, 8, 26

6
10
20
26

A)
B)
C)
D)

26.If a set of 25 numbers has standard deviation 8, then it's variance is

64.00
1.60
12.80
40.00

27.The interquartile range or IQR is found by subtracting the mean from the maximum value
of a data set.
A)
True
B)
False
28.Make a boxplot for the following data set.
24, 15, 34, 92, 67, 34, 78, 45, 53, 67, 83, 46
29.Given the following boxplot where m is the median value, what statement could be made
about the distribution of the data?

A)
B)
C)
D)

A)
B)
C)

The distribution is approximately symmetric.

The distribution is positively skewed.
The distribution is negatively skewed.
No statement can be made about the data because no data values are shown on the
plot.
30.If a set of data has 100 points and variance 9, then the standard deviation is
0.90
0.03
0.30

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3.00

31.For a set of data with mean 30 and variance 9, approximaely 68% of the values will fall
between 24 to 36.
A)
True
B)
False

A)
B)
C)
D)

32.A student scored 84 points on a test where the mean score was 81 and the standard
deviation was 6. The student's z score was
13.50
14.00
0.08
0.50

A)
B)
C)
D)

33.If the probability that it will rain tomorrow is 0.3, then the probability that it will not rain
tomorrow is:
0.3
-0.3
0.7
1.3

A)
B)
C)
D)

34.At a certain college, there were 400 science majors, 100 engineering majors, and 500
business majors. If one student was selected at random, the probability that they are an
engineering major is
1/9
1/10
1/1
9/10

A)
B)
C)
D)

35.If a die is rolled one time, find the probability of getting a number greater than 4.
4
3
3/6
2/6

A)
B)
C)
D)

36.A single card is drawn from a deck. Find the probability of selecting a club or a 9.
9/52
13/52
16/52
17/52

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B)
C)
D)

37.An apartment building has the following apartments:

1 bedroom
2 bedroom
3 bedroom
1st floor
3
2
1
2nd floor
1
3
2
3rd floor
1
4
1
If an apartment is selected at random, what is the probability that it is on the 2nd floor or
has 3 bedrooms?
9/12var://tot2b/
6/12var://tot2f/
15/18
12/18

A)
B)
C)
D)

38.A furniture manufacturer offers bookcases in 4 different sizes and 6 different colors. If
every color is available in every size, then the total number of different bookcases is
6
10
24
48

A)
B)
C)
D)

39.A coin is tossed 6 times. Find the probability that all 6 tosses are tails.
1/6
1/36
1/12
none of the above

A)
B)
C)
D)

40.There are 50,000 people at a stadium watching a soccer match, and 40,000 of them are
male. If 5 people are chosen at random, what is the probability that all 5 of them are
male?
0.800
0.200
0.000
0.328

A)
B)
C)
D)

41.For a normal curve with mean 9 and standard deviation 5, which of the following parts of
the normal curve will have an area of approximately 68%?
from 6.5 to 11.5
from 4 to 14
from 9 to 19
from 1 to 19

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B)
C)
D)

42.One normal curve has mean 19 and standard deviation 3, a second normal curve has
mean 4 and standard deviation 7. The curve that is more dispersed, or spread out, is
The first normal curve
The second normal curve
They are equally spread out
There is insufficient information to answer the question

A)
B)
C)
D)

43.Find the probability P(Z < 0.27) using the standard normal distribution.
0.7300
0.3936
0.6064
0.1064

A)
B)
C)
D)

44.Find the probability P(z > 0.78) using the standard normal distribution.
0.2200
0.7823
0.7177
0.2177

A)
B)
C)
D)

45.Find the probability P(0.21 < z < 1.28) using the standard normal distribution.
0.3166
0.6834
0.8166
0.4100

A)
B)
C)
D)

46.For a normal distribution with mean 7 and standard deviation 2, the value 10 has a z
value of
1.5
1.5
2.5
3.5

A)
B)
C)
D)

47.The average height of flowering cherry trees in a nursery is 9.5 feet. If the heights are
normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.3, find the probability that a tree is
less than 11.5 feet tall.
0.82
0.94
0.97
0.88

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A)
B)
C)
D)

48.The average gas mileage of a certain model car is 27 miles per gallon. If the gas
mileages are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.5, find the probability
that a car has a gas mileage of between 26.8 and 27.3 miles per gallon.
0.16
0.18
0.22
0.24

A)
B)
C)
D)

49.What z value corresponds to 17% of the data between 0 and the z value?
1.25
0.44
0.52
2.10

50.What is the z value to the right of the mean such that 85% of the total area lies to the left
of it as shown in the figure below?

51.Mrs. Smith's reading class can read a mean of 175 words per minute with a standard
deviation of 20 words per minute. The top 3% of the class is to receive a special award.
What is the minimum number of words per minute a student would have to read in order
to get the award?

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Answer Key
1.C
2.B
3.C
4.D
5.B
6.C
7.B
8.C
9.A
10.B
11.Sorted in the order Juniors / Freshmen / Seniors / Sophomores.
12.C
13.Varies depending on the numbers. The total number of students is 120.
14.C
15.B
16.C
17.C
18.A
19.6
20.5
21.B
22.D
23.3
24.B
25.C
26.A
27.B
28.

29.A
30.D
31.B
32.D
33.C

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34.B
35.D
36.C
37.D
38.C
39.D
40.D
41.B
42.B
43.C
44.D
45.A
46.B
47.B
48.B
49.B
50.1.04
51.213

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