Review for Notes on Accuracy, Precision, and Graphing

Sally measures the length of her cat, Peewee. If her measurement of Peewee is very close to Peewee's real length, then Sally's measurement is ...

• precise.

• accurate.

Aurelia wants to construct a graph that compares how much money she earned last summer by baby sitting, mowing grass, and doing several other activities for people. What type of graph would be best to show her data?

• circle graph

• bar graph

• line graph

How should the title of this graph be written?

• The Force on an Object v. Its Mass

• The Mass of an Object v. the Force on It

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Which picture could represent measurements that are accurate, but not very precise?

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Which picture could represent measurements that are precise, but not accurate?

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Which picture could represent measurements that are neither precise nor accurate?

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Juwan wants to graphically show how the distance his baseball flies changes as he hits the baseball with more force. What type of graph would be best to depict this?

• circle graph

• bar graph

• line graph

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

Two measurements that agree to many decimal places are said to be ...

• accurate.

• precise.

What is missing from the graph that needs to be included?

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

How is a best fit line on a line graph useful?

• It allows you to see the trend in the data.

• It allows you to estimate values between points that you measured.

• It allows you to estimate values beyond the last point that you measured.

• All of the answer choices are correct.