TEST NAME: Statistics and Probability

TEST ID: 489180

GRADE: 07
SUBJECT: Mathematics
TEST CATEGORY: School Assessment

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Student:
Class:
Date:

1. Madeline surveyed students about their favorite flavor of juice. Her

results are in the table below.

Favorite Juice Responses

Apple 18
Cranberry 5
Grape 31
Orange 26

Based on the information in the table, which statement is true?

A. Less than 5% of the students chose cranberry as their favorite.

B. More than 50% of the students chose apple or orange as their
favorite.
C.
Less than of the students chose grape as their favorite.

D.
More than of the students chose grape or cranberry as their

favorite.

2. A company wants to decide if it should sell sweatshirts at local football

games. Which sample is best for the company to use to make the
decision?

A. people at a library
B. students in the 7th grade
C. customers at a mall
D. people at a football game

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3. John’s teacher wrote the letters W, I, N, N, E, and R on separate cards
and put them into a hat. Without looking, John pulled a card out of the
hat. What is the probability John will pull out a vowel?

A.

B.

C.

D.

4. In a game, the probability of winning is 1 out of 5. How many times could

Lisa expect to win if she plays the game 85 times?

A. 17
B. 34
C. 68
D. 80

5. Of the 54 students in the school band, 36 are in the seventh grade. If a

student from the band is selected at random, what is the probability that
the student is in seventh grade?

A.

B.

C.

D.

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6. Wanda will flip a coin four times. What is the probability that Wanda’s
flips will all land on tails?

A.

B.

C.

D.

7. The graphs below show the number of touchdowns each of two teams
scored during the last football season.

What is the approximate difference between the means of the teams'

touchdowns in terms of the Lions' Mean Absolute Deviation?

A. 0.7
B. 1
C. 1.75
D. 3

8. Which represents a random sample of a population?

A. selecting 5 coins randomly out of a jar full of coins

B. surveying teachers with 20 years of experience about their favorite
job
C. asking students in the carpool lane how they get to school
D. surveying 100 fans at a baseball game about their favorite sport

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9. Mrs. Jones tells her students she will remove their lowest grade before
calculating the mean, or use the median of their scores for their final
grade. The choice is up to the student.
Student 1’s grades: 60, 75, 85, 88, 88, 100
Student 2’s grades: 80, 80, 82, 85, 87, 88
Which method is a better final grade for these students?

A. Both students should remove their lowest scores and find the mean.
B. Both students should find the median of their grades.
C. Student 2 should find the median. Student 1 should remove the
lowest score and find the mean.
D. Student 1 should find the median. Student 2 should remove the
lowest score and find the mean.

10. A national television show surveys customers about their favorite movie. Which statement is true?

A. The survey is random because it represents viewers of all ages of the program.

B. The survey is random because it represents all households with televisions.

C. The survey is not random because it only represents viewers of that particular program.

D. The survey is not random because it only represents viewers from a particular geographical location.

11. A cafeteria manager conducted a survey to determine the preference for

juice. She surveyed every 10th student who went through the lunch line.
The results are in the table below.

Favorite Juice Votes

orange 10
lemonade 13
apple 25
grape 20
tomato 8

Which statement is true?

A. Tomato juice was the most preferred juice.

B. Of the students surveyed, 25% preferred apple juice.
C. More than 50% of the students preferred apple and grape juice.
D. More than one­third of the students preferred orange juice or
lemonade.

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12. Maria is playing a card game. In the deck of cards for the game, 64% of
the cards have an even number on them and the rest have an odd
number. If Maria picked a card from the deck at random, what is the
probability that the card has an odd number on it? State your answer as
a percent.

13. Samples and Surveys

Hassan goes to a large middle school with 1,720 students from 4 elementary schools.
For a math project, he is going to do a survey to learn more about the students in his
school.

Part A. The group of people Hassan wants to learn about—the entire

student body—is called the population. It would be very hard to survey
all the students in the school, so Hassan needs to choose a smaller
group of students to study. This subset of all the students, called a
sample, should be a good representation of the student body as a whole.
The subjects in the sample should be chosen randomly; in other words,
each member of the population should have an equal chance of being
picked.

Consider each of the following possible sample groups. Which one would
you recommend that Hassan use for his survey? Why? What problems
might there be with the other samples?

a) Every other eighth grader

b) Every other student in the school
c) All the students from Middle School B
d) Every 20th name from an alphabetical list
e) The student athletes from every grade
f) Twenty honor students

Part B. In his survey, Hassan will collect data about the students in his
school. The word data means “pieces of information.” Hassan will put
together some statistics about his schoolmates. Statistics are facts in
number form, such as the percentage of Americans who watch a
particular TV show. Statistics can be used to create tables, graphs, line
plots, and other kinds of graphics.

Hassan needs to ask questions that will give him good statistics. Think
about the following questions. For each one, tell whether it would be a
good survey question to get information to put in a graphic. Explain your
answers. If a question is NOT good for a survey, suggest a better
question that would give similar information. Remember that the
questions should be clear and should give numerical data—information
that can be shown with numbers.

a) What do you think of the cafeteria food?

b) How many pets do you have?
c) Do you play a musical instrument?
d) How many different states have you lived in?
e) What month were you born?
f) How far from school do you live?

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 Part C. Hassan decides to create his sample group by taking every 20th
name from an alphabetical list of all students. His survey shows that 31
students in his sample play at least one musical instrument. How could
you estimate how many students in the whole school play a musical
instrument? Find that number. Show your work.

Part D. Hassan finds that 8 students in his sample group were born in
the month of October. About how many students in the whole school
were probably born in October? Is this number close to what you would
expect? Why or why NOT?

Part E. Choose a characteristic about the people in your neighborhood,

school, or town that you would like to learn about. For example, you
might wonder which candidate people are planning to vote for in an
election. Design a survey to gather the information you are interested in.
Carefully choose your sample; think about how you could pick a small
subset that would represent the whole population. Collect your data,
display it in one or more graphics, and if you have chosen something like
an election, check the results of the survey with the actual results after
the election.

14. A teacher collected data on the number of test questions in grade 6 and grade 7. He concluded that grade 7
tests have more variation in the number of problems than the grade 6 tests. The data for grade 6 is shown in the
table.

Which information makes the conclusion true?

A. The mean for grade 7 is 15.

B. The mean for grade 7 is 25.

C. The range for grade 7 is 6.

D. The range for grade 7 is 10.

15. A basketball coach at a middle school will conduct a survey to determine

the preference for next year’s uniform purchase. Which sample will give
the coach the best results?

A. teachers in the school

B. students in 8th grade
C. the basketball players from his team
D. people who attend basketball games

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16. An amusement park debuted a new roller coaster this season, and Peter,
the park manager, is interested in the number of people who are riding
it. The two data sets below represent the number of riders during the
first two weeks of June.
DAY Sun Mon Tue Wed Thurs Fri Sat
Week 1 4,100 4,100 4,400 4,200 4,500 5,000 8,700
Week 2 4,800 2,300 2,300 2,500 2,200 4,800 4,700
Rather than look at all those numbers, Peter wants to select a measure
of central tendency that he can use to compare the attendance from
week to week. Peter understands that many visitors want to ride the
most popular attractions; therefore, he does not want outlier data to
have too great an impact.
Given that consideration, which measure of central tendency should Peter
use to compare the attendance of week 1 to the attendance of week 2?

A. Peter should compare the mean attendance of week 1 to the mean

attendance of week 2.
B. Peter should compare the mean attendance of week 1 to the median
attendance of week 2.
C. Peter should compare the median attendance of week 1 to the mean
attendance of week 2.
D. Peter should compare the median attendance of week 1 to the
median attendance of week 2.

17. Donna is tossing a coin. Each time she tosses the coin, there are two
possible outcomes: heads or tails.

Part A. List all the possible outcomes of tossing a coin four times. Use H
for heads and T for tails.

Part B. What is the probability of a coin that has been tossed four times
landing on exactly 3 heads and 1 tail?

Use words, numbers, and/or pictures to show your work.

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18. Veronica surveyed students at her school about the number of televisions
at their home. The results are shown in the table below.

Number of Televisions Number of Students

0 16
1 71
2 11
3 2

Based on these results, which statement is true?

A. The number of students who do not have a television is less than

15%.
B. The number of students who have 1 television is more then 75%.
C. The number of students who have 1 or 2 televisions is over 90%.
D. The number of students who have 3 televisions is less than 5%.

19. Greg has four different colored cards in a box: yellow, red, blue, and
green. He randomly selects one card, records the color, and then replaces
the card in the box. If Greg does this 300 times, how many yellow cards
should he expect to select?

A. 50
B. 75
C. 100
D. 150

20. Jacob rolls a number cube numbered 1 to 6. What is the likelihood Jacob
rolls a number less than 7?

A. definite
B. likely
C. not likely
D. impossible

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21. A deli that just opened was giving out free mini sandwiches. A sample of
50 likely customers was surveyed about which sandwich they preferred.
The people surveyed included 12 people who said they preferred the
roast beef sandwich. Based on this information, how many of the first
150 sandwich orders should the deli predict will be for roast beef?

A. 8
B. 24
C. 36
D. 48

22. A radio station manager surveyed people by randomly selecting names

throughout the local phone book. He first selected names from the front
of the telephone book and then selected names from the back of the
book. Was this an appropriate method of selecting people?

A. Yes, because everyone had the likelihood of being selected.

B. Yes, because this was a random sample.
C. No, because it is wrong to call people at home.
D. No, because it was not a true random sample.

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23. Miss Jackson is comparing her students' scores on the science test to the
scores on the math test. She has recorded the scores for each test on
the dot plots shown below.

Which of the following statements is true about the data?

A. The mean absolute deviation of the math scores is greater than that
of the science scores; therefore, the math scores are more spread out
than are the science scores.
B. The mean absolute deviation of the science scores is greater than
that of the math scores; therefore, the science scores are more
spread out than are the math scores.
C. The mean absolute deviation of the science scores is greater than
that of the math scores; therefore, the science scores are higher than
the math scores.
D. The mean absolute deviation of the math scores is greater than that
of the science scores; therefore, the math scores are higher than the
science scores.

24. An ice­cream shop has 20 cartons of ice cream. Five of them are
chocolate, ten are vanilla, and five are other flavors. Maria concludes that
if she picks a carton without looking, there is an equal chance that she
will pick a carton of chocolate ice cream as there is that she will pick
another flavor of ice cream. Is Maria’s conclusion correct?

A. yes, because there are two possible choices.

B.
yes, because the probability of either event is .

C. no, because the probability of picking a carton of chocolate ice cream

is closer to 1.
D. no, because the probability of picking a carton of chocolate ice cream
is closer to 0.

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25. Two stem­and­leaf plots are shown. Group X plots the weights of 30
dogs at one dog show, and Group Y plots the weights of 30 dogs at
another dog show.

The mean absolute deviation (MAD) is 11 pounds for both groups. The
mean for Group X is 35 pounds. The mean for Group Y is higher than the
mean for Group X by some multiple of the mean absolute deviation
(MAD). Which is the best estimate for the difference in the means of the
two groups?

A. The difference in the means is about times the mean absolute

deviation.
B. The difference in the means is about 4 times the mean absolute
deviation.
C. The difference in the means is about 8 times the mean absolute
deviation.
D. The difference in the means is about 11 times the mean absolute
deviation.

26. If a fair cube numbered 1 through 6 is rolled 300 times, about how many
times can it be expected to land on 5?

A. 13
B. 27
C. 52
D. 65

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27. Raymond took a survey of classmates to determine the favorite subject of the students in his middle school. The
results of his survey are shown in the table.

There are 300 students in Raymond's middle school. Based on his results, approximately how many students
in his school would be expected to choose math as their favorite subject?

A. 17

B. 100

C. 102

D. 170

28. The chart below shows the student lunch menu at a school. A lunch
consists of one sandwich, one snack, and one drink.

Lunch Menu
Sandwich Snack Drink
turkey apple juice
bologna banana milk
peanut butter cookies
ham yogurt

How many different lunch choices does a student have?

A. 10
B. 16
C. 30
D. 32

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29. In a school, 60 students were randomly chosen and were surveyed about
their favorite subject. Of the 60 students, 24 students chose math as
their favorite subject. Based on the survey results, about how many of
the 350 total students at the school would be expected to choose math
as their favorite subject?

A. 40
B. 84
C. 140
D. 314

30. Two coins are flipped. What is the probability of both coins landing on
heads?

A.

B.

C.

31. Sue will roll a number cube, labeled 1 through 6, and toss a coin. What is
the probability Sue will roll an even number and her coin will land on
heads?

A.

B.

C.

D.

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32. A spinner has red, green, blue, and orange sections. The probability of
landing on red is , on green is , on blue is .

What is the probability of landing on orange?

A.

B.

C.

D.

33. A state fair had 1,019,887 people in attendance. The fair committee
performed a survey. The question was, “What do fairgoers enjoy most
about the fair?” Of those who responded, 83% reported eating traditional
foods. Which group of people represents the sample group?

A. fairgoers who responded to the survey

B. fairgoers who like traditional foods
C. fair committee
D. fairgoers

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34. Leslie is using the spinner below in a game she is playing.

What is the probability that Leslie’s next spin will land on an even
number?

A. 20%
B. 40%
C. 60%
D. 67%

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