Unit 8 (1-3)

A set of data that has values that are words instead of numbers.

• numerical data

• categorical data

• scooby doo data

• catastrophic data

A set of data that has values that are numbers.

• numerical data

• categorical data

• alphabetic data

• one two three data

A way to represent data on a number line. Values are marked by dots above the number on the number line.

• histogram

• dot plot

• graph

• turkey dots

Is the following survey question going to produce numerical or categorical data?

What is your favorite vegetable?

• cookies

• categorical

• numerical

• numeratorical

Would this survey question produce categorical or numerical data?

Have you been to the capital city of your state?

• catmeowical

• categorical

• numerical

• numberical

Numerical or Categorical?

How old is the youngest person in your family

• newmerica

• numerical

• catmiracle

• categorical

Tyler asked 10 students at his school how much time in minutes it takes them to get from home to school. Determine which dot plot could represent the data Tyler collected.

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What is a typical height of female athletes on a team in the most recent international sporting event?

What data would you collect and analyze to answer the question?

• you would collect heights of male athletes on the team

• you would collect weights of female athletes on the team

• you would collect heights of female athletes on the team

• you would collect names of the most popular female sports

Noah gathered information on the home states of the swimmers on Team USA. He organized the data in a table. Which of the choices would be the most appropriate chart to display his data?

• dot plot

• bar graph

type in a number only