CollegeBoard: Unit 1 MCQ Part A - Andrew Blackwell

Data is collected on the 35 students in a college history course. Which of the following is not a variable for the data set?

Number of students in the data set

The following table shows data collected about the thirty-third through fortieth presidents of the United States. All variables reported in the table are categorical. Which of the variables in the table could have been reported differently such that the variable would be classified as quantitative?

Age at inauguration

Residents from five districts of a city were asked whether they were in favor of a city proposal to create new bike lanes in the roads. The following bar chart shows the relative frequency in each district of those who responded that they were in favor of the proposal. Which of the following statements is supported by the bar chart?

District 2 has the greatest percentage of residents who are in favor of the proposal.

A group of middle school students were asked which school subject was their favorite. The results are displayed by grade of student in the following bar chart. Which of the following statements is supported by the bar chart?

For students who chose art, the number of grade 8 students was at least 100% greater than the number of grade 7 students.

Students in a class were asked to choose their favorite school subject. The following frequency table summarizes the responses. Which of the following statements is supported by the frequency table?

Less than half of the students chose math as their favorite subject.

The following relative frequency table shows reasons given by high school students for their last absence from school. Which of the following statements is not supported by the relative frequency table?

Only 7 students were absent because they did not finish an assignment.

The following dotplot shows the number of strokes taken by 20 professional golfers competing at an 18-hole golf course. Which of the following best describes the type of variable represented in the dotplot?

Quantitative and discrete

The occupancy rate of a motel is the percentage of rooms that are occupied on a particular night. The histogram shown summarizes the occupancy rates for a random sample of 100 nights for a motel. Based on the histogram, which of the following best describes the shape of the distribution of occupancy rates?

Skewed to the right

The following bar chart shows the number of wins for four middle-school basketball teams. Each team played 12 games. Which of the following statements is not supported by the bar chart?

Team B won 60% of its games.

The following table shows the numbers of students in grades 7 and 8 at a middle school who are participating in extracurricular activities. Which of the following statements is supported by the table?

The activity with the greatest number of students is Chorus.

The diameter, in centimeters (cm), of each tree in a random sample of trees in a forest was measured. The histogram shown summarizes the diameters. Which of the following is the best description of the distribution?

The distribution consists of two clusters and a gap.

Relative humidity is a measure, expressed as a percentage, of the amount of water vapor present in air. The following histogram summarizes the relative humidity, at noon, for a random sample of 100 days for a certain city. Based on the histogram, which of the following is the best description of the distribution?

The distribution displays a gap with a potential outlier located between 40% and 45%.

The following bar chart shows the average price per gallon of gasoline for each month in 2004. Which of the following statements is not supported by the bar chart?

The gas price was lowest in February.

The traffic engineer for a large city is conducting a study on traffic flow at a certain intersection near the city administration building. The engineer will collect data on different variables related to the intersection each day for ten days. Of the following variables, which will be measured using continuous data?

The number of minutes for a car to get from the intersection to the administration building

Which of the following variables for data about a track team is a discrete variable?

The number of times that a team member finished first in a race

Just before graduation, a random sample of high school seniors were asked what their plans were for the coming year. A year after graduation, those same individuals were asked what their main activity was in the year since graduation. Their responses are shown in the following bar chart. Which of the following statements is supported by the bar chart?

The percentage of students who selected Work as their main activity increased after graduation.

A local ice-cream shop sells ice-cream cones for $2.00, and customers can choose from the following options: Ice-cream flavor, Type of cone: sugar or waffle, Chocolate dipped for an additional $0.50, and Sprinkles for an additional $0.50. Which of the following is a quantitative variable?

The total cost of the cone

A group of first-grade students were asked to name their favorite color. The responses are shown in the following frequency table. Which of the following statements is supported by the frequency table?

Twice as many students chose blue as chose red.