SC Ready Data & Probability

Leslie surveyed the 9 youngest students in the elementary school.  Is this sample of the students in the school likely to be representative?

• yes
• no

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

Mr. Thrasher wants to know how the students at Cedar Bluff rate the cafeteria. He surveyed the hungry baseball team after practice last week to rate the school cafeteria. Is this a biased sample of the school's population?

• Yes, because it only asked one group of students

• No, the baseball team has the smartest students

• Yes, because it's voluntary survey

• No, the baseball team are good food critics

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Identify the Population:

Cherokee County Schools randomly selected 230 teachers to find out which technology resource its teachers feel is the most effective. What is the population in this situation?

• 230 Teachers

• All Cherokee County teachers

• All Cedar Bluff teachers

• All Sand Rock and Spring Garden students

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

Identify the Sample:

The Huddle House wants to know if their customers buy dessert when they eat out. As people leave the restaurant one evening, 20 people are surveyed at random. Eight people say they usually order dessert when they eat out. The manager at Huddle House concluded that most customers do not order dessert. What is the SAMPLE in this scenario?

• 20 customers from Huddle House

• All customers from Huddle House that evening

• 8 customers from Huddle House

• The employees from Huddle House

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

Mrs. Connie wants to know the average student’s opinion of the tardy policy at our school. Which group of students should she survey in order to achieve the most accurate-non-biased results?

• 30 students who are often tardy

• 30 students who are rarely tardy

• 30 7th grade students

• 30 randomly selected students from our school

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

• 5 red shirts
• 17 red shirts
• 40 red shirts
• 83 red shirts

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3B

A recent survey of 800 seventh graders from across the state shows 4 out of 10 like to play paper football. How many students said they like to play paper football?

• 40 students
• 200 students 
• 320 students
• 8,000 students

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CCSS.7.RP.A.3

The dot plots show how long it took students in Mr. Chauncey's two science classes to finish their science homework last night. Find the means to make an inference about the data.

• The 1st period mean is 35. The 2nd period mean is 38.75. On average, it took students in the 1st period class slightly longer to finish their homework than it did the students in the 2nd period class.

• The 1st period mean is 38.75. The 2nd period mean is 35. On average, it took students in the 1st period class slightly longer to finish their homework than it did the students in the 2nd period class.

• The 1st period mean is 35. The 2nd period mean is 38.75. On average, it took students in the 2nd period class slightly longer to finish their homework than it did the students in the 1st period class.

• The 1st period mean is 38.75. The 2nd period mean is 35. On average, it took students in the 2nd period class slightly longer to finish their homework than it did the students in the 1st period class.

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CCSS.7.SP.B.4

Russell randomly surveys seventh-graders in his school and finds that 6 of 30 attend summer camp. If there are 200 seventh-graders in his school, about how many are expected to attend summer camp?

• 40

• 1,000

• 176

• There is not enough information to answer.

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CCSS.7.SP.A.2

What is the interquartile range?

• 4
• 6
• 2
• 8

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1