Statistics Center/Spread and Standard Deviation

This consists of the minimum, the three quartiles, and the maximum. It is often indicated by a box plot.

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In a population of five university students with GPAs of 2.5, 2.3, 1.7, 1.4, and 1.1, a sample of three students are considered. What would be the standard deviation of the resulting sampling distribution?

• 0.53

• 0.41

• 0.35

• 0.22

The mean life of a tire is 30,000 km. The standard deviation is 2000 km.

Then, 68% of all tires will have a life between ___________ km and __________ km.

•  28,000 km and 32,000 km.

• 24,000 km and 34,000 km.

• 26,000 km and 34,000 km.

• 27,000 km and 31,000 km.

Pick the definition of an outlier.

• A value that lies outside of most other values in a data set.

• A value that is the largest.

• A value that is the smallest.

• A value that occurs the most.

True or False: the mean and median values of shoe sizes shown in the dot plot for Group B are almost the same.

• True

• False

Which restaurant has a greater IQR?

• Lucy's Steakhouse

• Gary's Grill

• They are the same

Which club has the smaller spread, less variation?

• Cruisers

• Car Hops

• Skewed Left
• Skewed Right
• Uniform
• Symmetric

Find the median of these numbers:
4, 2, 7, 4, 3

• 2

• 5

• 7

• 4

The mean of this data set is 17.8. What would happen to the mean if 40 was added to the data set?

• The mean would not change

• The mean would go up

• The mean would go down