Lesson 6.8.4 Pre assessment

A musical theater venue is showing three different musicals. The dot plots represent the ages of the people who were at the Sunday afternoon showing of each of these musicals. One of these musicals was based on an adventure book for family audiences. Do you think it was musical A, B, or C? Select the correct choice.

• musical A

• musical B

• musical C

Explain your reasoning for question 1. Type your response in the space below.

Which musical has a dot plot with ages that center at about 25 years?

• musical A

• musical B

• musical C

What percent of the people were under age 35 who attended musical B? Select the correct choice.

• 48.57 %

• 2.058 %

• 20.58 %

• 48 %

The word 'distribution' tells us:

• the average in the data set.

• how many total numbers are in a data set.

• how many times each value occurs in a data set.

• the biggest and smallest quantities.

The definition of the word 'frequency' is:

• the smallest value in the data set.

• the biggest value in the data set.

• the range of the data set.

• how many times it occurs in the data set.

The phrase 'typical value' is defined as:

• the center of the data.

• the beginning of the data.

• the end of the data.