ID: ___________________________________

Name:___________________________________

MULTIPLE CHOICE.    Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

You have collected data on the number of complaints for 6 different brands of automobiles sold in the US in 2006 and in
2010. Which of the following is the best for presenting the data?

1)

_______
A)
A contingency table

B)

A side-by-side bar chart

C)
A time-series plot

D)

A stem-and-leaf display

Solve the problem.

A dot plot of the speeds of a sample of 50 cars passing a policeman with a radar gun is shown below.

What proportion of the motorists were driving above the posted speed limit of    55 miles per hour?
2)

_______
A)
0.64

B)

0.14

C)

D)

0.50
Parking at a university has become a problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average time it
takes a student to find a parking spot. An administrator inconspicuously followed    80 students and recorded how long it
took each of them to find a parking spot. Which of the following types of graphs should not be used to display
information concerning the students parking times?

3)

_______
A)
pie chart

B)

histogram
C)
box plot

D)

stem-and-leaf display

A sample of professional golfers was taken and their driving distance (measured as the average distance as their drive off
the tee) and driving accuracy (measured as the percentage of fairways that their drives landed in) were recorded. A
scatterplot of the variables is shown below.

What relationship do these two variables exhibit?

4)

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A)
They exhibit a positive linear relationship
B)
They exhibit a curvillinear relationship
C)
They exhibit a negative linear relationship
D)
They exhibit no relationship

SHORT ANSWER.    Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

The scores for a statistics test are as follows:

Create a stem-and-leaf display for the data.

5)   

_____________

The total points scored by a basketball team for each game during its last season have been summarized in the table
below.

Score Frequency
41-60 3
61-80 8
81-100 12
101-120 7

a. Explain why you cannot use the information in the table to construct a stem-and-leaf display for the data.
b. Construct a histogram for the scores.   
6)   

_____________

1)

B
2)
D
3)
A
4)
C
5)

6)
a. The exact scores would be needed to construct a stem-and-leaf display but    the exact scores are not available in the
table given.

b.