Week 30 Practice Problems

Determine if the responses to the question below will produce numerical or categorical data:

What is your favorite breakfast food?

• Numerical Data

• Categorical Data

Determine if the responses to the question below will produce numerical or categorical data:

How did you get to school this morning?

• Numerical Data

• Categorical Data

Determine if the responses to the question below will produce numerical or categorical data:

How many different teachers do you have?

• Numerical Data

• Categorical Data

Determine if the responses to the question below will produce numerical or categorical data:

How many minutes did it take you to get ready this morning?

• Numerical Data

• Categorical Data

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 are we from the ice cream shop?

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

• How many toppings are there to choose from?

• Do kids usually prefer their ice cream in a cup or a cone?

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

• What are the lunch choices?

• What school do these students attend?

• How many math teachers are at the school?

• What ages are the teachers at the school?

• About how many hours of sleep do students get a night?

A teacher drew a line segment that was 20 inches long on the whiteboard. 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 her class?

DO NOT INCLUDE A LABEL.

Here 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 weight for babies born during October in a hospital.

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

Priya recorded the number of attempts it took each of 12 of her classmates to successfully throw a ball into a basket. Make a dot plot of Priya's data.

Priya's Data: 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, 4, 3, 1, 2, 5, 2

This dot plot shows the ages of students in a swimming class. How many students are in the class?

DO NOT INCLUDE A LABEL.