Week 11 Practice Problems

100 sixth-grade students were asked, "What grade are you in?".

Is this a statistical question?

• Yes

• No

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CCSS.6.SP.A.1

Lin and her friends went out for ice cream after school. The following questions came up during their trip. Select all the questions that are statistical questions.

• How far away are we from the ice cream shop?

• What is the most popular ice cream flavor this week?

• What does a group of 4 people typically spend on ice cream at this shop?

• Do kids usually prefer to get a cup or a cone?

• How many toppings are there to choose from?

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CCSS.6.SP.A.1

Here is a list of questions about the students and teachers at a school. Select all the questions that are statistical questions.

• What is the most popular lunch choice?

• What school do these students attend?

• How many math teachers are in the school?

• What is a common age for the teachers at the school?

• How do students usually travel from home to school?

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CCSS.6.SP.A.1

What is the surface area of this figure?

DO NOT INCLUDE A LABEL.

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CCSS.7.G.B.6

A teacher drew a line segment that was 20 inches long on the blackboard. She asked each of her students to estimate the length of the segment and used their estimates to draw the dot plot pictured.

How many students were in the class?

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CCSS.2.MD.D.9

Below are descriptions of data sets. Select all descriptions of data sets that could be graphed as dot plots.

• Class size for the classes at an elementary school

• Colors of cars in a parking lot

• Favorite sport of each student in a sixth-grade class

• Birth weights for the babies born during October at a hospital

• Number of goals scored in each of 20 games played by a school soccer team

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

Clare recorded the amounts of time spent doing homework, in hours per week, by students in sixth, eighth, and tenth grades. She made a dot plot of the data for each grade and provided the following summary:

1. 1. Students in the sixth grade tend to spend less time on homework than students in eighth and tenth grades.

2. 2. The homework times for tenth-grade students are more alike than the homework times for the eighth-grade students.

Match the following dot plot to the correct grade.

• 8th Grade

• 
• 10th Grade

• 
• 6th Grade

• 

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CCSS.3.MD.B.4

A movie theater is showing three different movies. The dot plots represent the ages of the people who were at the Saturday afternoon showing of each of these movies.

Ones of these movies was an animated movie rated G for general audiences. Do you think it was movie A, B, or C?

• Movie A

• Movie B

• Movie C

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

A movie theater is showing three different movies. The dot plots represent the ages of the people who were at the Saturday afternoon showing of each of these movies.

Which movie has a dot plot with ages that center at about 30 years?

• Movie A

• Movie B

• Movie C

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

A movie theater is showing three different movies. The dot plots represent the ages of the people who were at the Saturday afternoon showing of each of these movies.

What is a typical age for the people who were at Movie A?

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3