Summarize Data Distribution

Timothy is creating a graphic novel and has been working on the illustrations. The graph shows how many drawings he completed on five different days. The mean number of drawings Timothy completed during the five days is 14. What is the mean absolute deviation (MAD) of the data? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

Select all that would be considered a statistical question if the questions were asked of students and teachers at a middle school.

• What is the most popular snack choice? Hint: Being asked about the most popular is similar to finding the mode for snack choices.

• What time does the school day end?

• What is a common age of students? Hint: Think about whether or not there can be me more than one common age of students.

• About how many hours of homework do students have on the weekend?

• How many classrooms are on the first floor?

Stephanie is a college scout for the women's basketball team. She compiles data on the points scored by certain players and gives a report to the coaches on the mode, mean, and range. Which statement best describes the data values that are given to the coaches?

• The mode, mean, and range describe how the data varies.

• The mean and mode describe how the data varies while the range summarizes the data.

• The mode and range describe how the data varies and the mean summarizes the data.

• The mean and mode summarize the data while the range describes how the data varies.

An owner of a bowling alley is looking at data collected about the bowling alley league participation. What do the data values in the table represent?

• The mean number of people on bowling leagues.

• The number of people on bowling leagues each year.

• The number of people on bowling leagues each month.

• The most number of people on bowling leagues between January and December.

The table shows the number of each type of animal at a refuge. Determine the relative frequency for the cheetah.

• 45%

• 25%

• 50%

• 30%

The Jackson family has a large assortment of pets. The table shows the number of each type of pet the family owns. Which of the following statements does NOT reflect a good summary of the data?

• One-fourth of the pets are cats.

• Snakes represent 10% of the pets on the farm.

• The number of birds and snakes make up 20% of the pets.

• More than half of the pets are dogs.

The Jackson family has a large assortment of pets. The table shows the number of each type of pet the family owns. Which relative frequency table matches the pets at the Jackson home?

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The graph represents all the students in Mr. Bryant's first-period class and which sport they signed up to play after school. Which of the following statements best describes the summary of the data?

• Forty-five percent of the students in Mr. Bryant's class signed up to play softball.

• Less than one-third of the students in Mr. Bryant's class signed up to play soccer.

• More than 3/5 of the students in Mr. Bryant's class signed up to play either flag football or soccer.

• Exactly 5/8 of the students in Mr. Bryant's class did not sign up to play basketball.

The percent bar graph shows the percent of each type of trading card that is in John’s collection.

True of False: One-fourth of the cards were football cards.

• True, because football is 25%

• False, because football is 30%

• True, because football is 40%

• False, because football is 20%

The table shows the results of a survey about favorite types of stores. What is the mode of the data?

• Candy Store

• Pet Store

• Electronic Store

• Clothing Store