Exploring Data—MC Practice Name____________________________________

Use the data for Questions 1 – 5: E) five-number summary

A survey was conducted to gather Stem Leaves 7. These summary statistics are for the distribution of the
ratings of the quality of service at 3 24 populations of the major cities in Brazil.
a restaurant at a nearby mall. 4 03478999 Variable N Mean Median StDev SEMean
Customers were to rate overall 5 0112345 Population 222 381056 191348 820246 55051
service using values between 0 6 12566
(terrible) ad 100 (excellent). The 7 01 Variable Min Max Q1 Q3
ratings of a sample of customers 8
Population 100049 10009231 129542 324323
are given in this stemplot. 9 2

1. What percentage of the Which of the following best describes the shape of this
respondents rated quality as very good or higher (a distribution?
rating of 80 or more)? A) skewed right without outliers
A) 0% B) 4% C) 25% B) skewed right with at least one outlier
D) 96% E) 100% C) roughly Normal, without outliers
D) skewed left without outliers
2. What is the shape of this distribution? E) skewed left with at least one outlier
A) symmetric D) uniform
B) skewed left E) approximately
C) skewed right Normal 8. This stem-and-leaf plot shows the ages of CEOs of 60
corporations whose annual sales were between $5
3. The mean of these ratings is million and $350 million.
A) equal to the median.
Stem Leaves
B) less than the median. 3 23
C) greater than the median. 3 678
D) an integer. 4 013344
E) at the 13th rating 4 55556677788889
5 000000112333
4. What is the largest a rating could be without being an 5 555666677889
outlier? 6 0111223
A) 63.5 B) 70 C) 75 6 99
D) 87.5 E) 92 7 04

5. The boxplot of the ratings is Which of the following is not a correct statement about
this distribution?
A) A) The distribution is skewed left.
B) The oldest of the 60 CEOs is 74 years old.
B) C) The distribution has no outliers.
D) The range of the distribution is 42.
C) E) The median of the distribution is 50.

D) 9. A traveler visits Europe and stays 30 days in 30

different hotels, paying each day with her credit card.
The hotels charged a mean price of 50 euros, with a
standard deviation of 10 euros. When the charges appear
on her credit card statement in the United States, she
E) None of these is a boxplot of the ratings. finds that her bank charged her $1.20 per euro, plus a $5
fee for each transaction. What’s the mean & standard
6. Which of these lists contains only summary statistics deviation of the 30 daily hotel charges in dollars,
that are sensitive to outliers? including the fee?
A) mean, median, and mode A) mean $50, standard deviation $17
B) standard deviation, IQR, and range B) mean $60, standard deviation $12
C) mean and standard deviation C) mean $60, standard deviation $17
D) median and IQR D) mean $65, standard deviation $12
 E) mean $65, standard deviation $17 15. The mean and standard deviation of a Normally
10. The scores on a nationally administered test are distributed dataset are 19 and 4, respectively. 19 is
approximately Normally distributed with mean 47.3 and subtracted from every term in the dataset and then the
standard deviation 17.3. Approximately what must a result is divided by 4. Which of the following best
student have scored to be in the 95th percentile describes the resulting distribution?
nationally? A) Mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1.
A) 55 B) 61 C) 73 B) Mean of 0, standard deviation of 4, and its
D) 76 E) 81 shape is Normal.
C) Mean of 1 and standard deviation of 0.
D) Mean of 0, standard deviation of 1, and its
11. A particular brand of cereal boxes is labeled “16 oz.” shape is Normal.
This dotplot shows the actual weights of 100 randomly E) Mean of 0, standard deviation of 4, and its
selected boxes. Which of the following is the best shape is unknown.
estimate of the standard deviation of these weights?
16. The five-number summary for a one-variable dataset
is {5, 18, 20, 40, 75}. If you wanted to construct a
modified boxplot for the dataset (that is, one that would
show outliers if there are any), what would be the
maximum possible length of the right side “whisker”?
A) 35 B) 33 C) 5
D) 55 E) 53

A) 0.04 oz B) 0.1 oz C) 0.2 oz 17. A set of 5,000 scores on a college readiness exam are
D) 0.4 oz E) between 16.0 and 16.2 oz known to be approximately Normally distributed with
mean 72 and standard deviation 6. To the nearest integer
value, how many scores are there between 63 and 75?
12. The distribution of the number of points earned by A) 0.6247 B) 4,115 C) 3,650
the thousands of contestants in the Game of Pig World D) 3,123 E) 3,227
Championship has mean 20 and standard deviation 6.
What proportion of the contestants earned more than 26 18. Which of the following statements is (are) true?
points? I. The median is resistant to extreme values.
A) Less than 1% C) 32% II. The mean is resistant to extreme values.
B) 16% D) 84% III. The standard deviation is resistant to
E) This proportion cannot be determined extreme values.
from the given info.
A) I only D) II and III only
B) II only E) I and III only
13. The following list is ordered from smallest to largest: C) III only
25, 26, 26, 30, y, y, y, 33, 150. Which of the following
statements is (are) true? 19. One of the values in a Normal distribution is 43 and
I. The mean is greater than the median its z-score is 1.65. If the mean of the distribution is 40,
II. The mode is 26 what is the standard deviation of the distribution?
III. There are no outliers in the data A) 3 B) -1.82 C) -0.55
D) 1.82 E) 0.55
A) I only D) I and III only
B) I and II only E) II and III only
C) III only 20. Free-response questions on the AP Statistics Exam
are graded on 0 – 4 scale. Question #2 on the exam was
of moderate difficulty. The average score on question #2
14. Jenny is 5’10’’ tall and is worried about her height. was 2.05 with a standard deviation of 1. To the nearest
The heights of girls in the school are approximately tenth, what score was achieved by a student who was at
Normally distributed with a mean of 5’5’’ and a standard the 90th percentile of all students on the test? You may
deviation of 2.6’’. What is the percentile rank of Jenny’s assume the scores on the question were approximately
height? Normally distributed.
A) 59 B) 65 C) 74 A) 3.5 B) 3.3 C) 2.9
D) 92 E) 97 D) 3.7 E) 3.1