The ages of nine employees at a company are shown below. 45, 50, 52, 58, 63, 63, 41, 58, 49 The company hires a tenth employee who is 28 years old. What effect does the new employee have on the shape of the data distribution?

The new employee causes the distribution to be skewed to the left.

The new employee causes the distribution to become skewed to the right.

The new employee causes the distribution to become more symmetrical.

The new employee causes the distribution to become less spread out.

Which statement is INCORRECT?

The graph for Gary's Grill is skewed left.

The graph for Lucy's Steakhouse is skewed right

The IQR for Gary's Grill is 10.

The Range for Lucy's Steakhouse is 40.

Which statement best describes the graph?

There is a peak between 10 and 14 hours.

There is a cluster between 5 and 9

The number of books 11 students read during their summer vacation are shown below. 5, 7, 4, 23, 3, 2, 4, 4, 3, 8, 6 Which statement below is true?

The student who read 23 books caused the data distribution to be skewed to the right.

The student who read 2 books caused the data distribution to be skewed left.

The student who read 2 books caused the data distribution to be skewed right.

The student who read 23 books caused the data distribution to be skewed to the left.

Last year, students at NGMS gathered data on how many pages are in fiction books in their library. Which statement is true about the distribution?

There is a large cluster of books that have between 150-400 pages.

The distribution is perfectly symmetrical

Most of the books have over 400 pages

There is a cluster of data between 400 and 1000 pages

What measure of central tendency (mean, median or mode) would be best for the following set of data? 0, 89, 92, 97, 99, 100

Median, because there is an outlier.

Mode, because it is the one that shows up the most.

Mean, because there is not an outlier.

There is not a best measure of central tendency for this data.

Describe the peak of the distribution.

There is no peak of the distribution.

Which is a true statement based on the box plots above

The data for Team B have the greater interquartile range.

The data for Team B have the greater range.

The data for Team A are more symmetric.

The data for Team A have the greater median.

Which is a true statement based on the dot plots above?

Set A is less symmetric that Set B

What conclusion can Ms. Long make about the performance of her first- and second-period classes?

Both classes have the same range.

The first-period class had a higher median score than the second-period class.

Both graphs are uniform with one peak.

The first-period class scores had a greater range than the second-period class scores.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What is the shape of the data?

symmetrical

skewed left

skewed right

uniform

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What is shape of the data?

uniform

skewed left

skewed right

symmetrical

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What is the shape of the distribution?

Skewed Left

Skewed Right

Symmetric

Bimodal

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

CCSS.6.SP.A.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What is the shape of the data?

symmetrical

skewed left

skewed right

uniform

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following best describes the shape of the distribution?

Skewed left

Skewed right

uniform

symmetrical

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

CCSS.6.SP.A.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What is the shape of the data?

symmetrical

skewed left

skewed right

uniform

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Which statement best describes this graph?

There is a peak at 47.

There is a cluster around 38-40.

The mode is 40, 28 and 42

There is a gap in the data between 39-40.

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

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Shape, Center & Spread

What is the shape of the data?

What is shape of the data?

What is the shape of the distribution?

What is the shape of the data?

Which of the following best describes the shape of the distribution?

What is the shape of the data?

Which statement best describes this graph?

Where is the gap in the data?

The ages of nine employees at a company are shown below.45, 50, 52, 58, 63, 63, 41, 58, 49The company hires a tenth employee who is 28 years old. What effect does the new employee have on the shape of the data distribution?

Which statement best describes this graph?

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The ages of nine employees at a company are shown below.
45, 50, 52, 58, 63, 63, 41, 58, 49
The company hires a tenth employee who is 28 years old. What effect does the new employee have on the shape of the data distribution?