AP Statistics Chapter 1 Practice Test Name __________________

Exploring Data Per ____ Date____________

Part 1: Multiple Choice. Circle the letter corresponding to the best answer.

_____ 1. You measure the age, marital status and earned income of an SRS of 1463 women. The number and
type of variables you have measured is
(a) 14563
(b) four; two categorical and two quantitative.
(c) four; one categorical and three quantitative.
(d) three; two categorical and one quantitative.
(e) three; one categorical and two quantitative.

_____ 2. The bar graph below summarizes responses of dog owners to

the question, “Where in the car do you let your dog ride?” Which of the
following statements is false?
(a) Some owners let their pets ride in more than one place in the
car.
(b) A majority of owners allow their pets to ride in the front
passenger seat.
(c) The most common place dogs ride is in the back seat.
(d) The vertical scale of this graph exaggerates the difference
between the percentage who let their dogs ride in the driver’s
lap versus a passenger’s lap.
(e) These data could also be presented in a pie chart.

_____ 3. Here are the ages of randomly selected people at a community playground.
3, 10, 42, 25, 5, 8, 6, 12, 15, 4, 3, 21
To make a stemplot of these scores, you would use as stems
(a) 0 and 1.
(b) 1, 2, and 4.
(c) 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4
(d) 3, 10, 42, 25, 5, 8, 6, 12, 15, 4, 3, and 21
(e) None of the above is a correct answer.

_____ 4. If a distribution is symmetrical, which of the following is true?

(a) The mean must be less than the median.
(b) The mean and median must be equal.
(c) The mean must be greater than the median.
(d) The mean is either equal to or less than the median,
(e) It’s impossible to tell which of the above statements is true without seeing the data.

_____ 5. If a distribution is skewed to the right, which of the following is true?

(a) The mean must be less than the median.
(b) The mean and median must be equal.
(c) The mean must be greater than the median.
(d) The mean is either equal to or less than the median,
(e) It’s impossible to tell which of the above statements is true without seeing the data.

_____ 6. If a distribution is skewed to the left, which of the following is true?

(a) The mean must be less than the median.
(b) The mean and median must be equal.
(c) The mean must be greater than the median.
(d) The mean is either equal to or less than the median,
(e) It’s impossible to tell which of the above statements is true without seeing the data.
_____ 7. Mr. Williams asked the 26 seniors in his statistics class how many A.P. courses they had taken during
high school. Below is a dot plot summarizing the results of his survey.

Which of the following boxplots is a correct representation of the same distribution?

_____ 8. A survey was designed to study how business operations vary according to their size. Companies
were classified as small, medium, or large. Questionnaires were sent to 200 randomly selected
businesses of each size. Since not all questionnaires in a survey of this type are returned ,
researchers decided to investigate the relationship between the response rate and the size of the
business. The data is shown in the table below:
Size Response No Response Total
Small 125 75 200
Medium 81 119 200
Large 40 160 200
Which of the following conclusions seems to be supported by the data?
(a) There are more small companies than large companies in the survey.
(b) Small companies appear to have a higher response rate than medium or big companies.
(c) Exactly the same number of companies responded as didn’t respond.
(d) Small companies dislike larger companies
(e) If we combine the medium and large companies, then their response rate would be equal to that of the
small companies.

_____ 9. A small school has 10 employees, one of whom is the principal and the others are teachers. Suppose
the principal makes $100,000 per year and the other employees make between $40,000 and $50,000 per
year. One day, the principal wins an award and is given a $20,000 raise. Which of the following describes
how the school’s mean and median salaries would change?
(a) The mean and median would both increase by $2,000.
(b) The mean would increase by $12,000 and the median would not change.
(c) The mean would increase by $2,000 and the median would not change.
(d) The median would increase by $2,000 and the mean would not change.
(e) The mean would increase by $2,000, but we cannot determine the change in the median without more
information.

_____ 10. The mean salary of all female workers is $35,000. The mean salary of all male workers is $41,000.
What must be true about the mean salary of all workers?
(a) It must be $38,000
(b) It must be larger than the median salary
(c) It could be any number between $35,000 and $41,000.
(d) It must be larger than $38,000
(e) We don’t have enough information to draw any conclusion about the mean salary of all workers.
_____ 11. The mean mercury concentration in sampled cans of tuna is 0.285 ppm with a standard deviation of
0.300ppm. Which of the following is a correct interpretation of standard deviation?
(a) The mean amount of mercury in all other cans of tuna will be within 0.300 ppm of the mean.
(b) All cans of tuna have between 0 and 0.585 ppm of mercury in them.
(c) About half the cans of tuna have between 0 and 0.585 ppm of mercury in them
(d) The difference in the mean and the median amount of mercury is 0.300 ppm
(e) The distance between the ppm of mercury in each can and the mean ppm is, on average, about
0.300ppm

_____ 12. Mrs. Settle took a sample of scores from a Statistics Partner Quiz. The five number summary for
the scores was
0, 7, 9, 10, 10
About what percent of the scores are between 0 and 7?
(a) 50% (b) 25% (c) 35% (d) 70% (e) 95%

Use for problems 13-14: Forty students took a statistics exam having a maximum of 50 points. The score
distribution is given in the following stem and leaf plot:
0 28
1 2245
2 01333358889 1|4 is a score of 14
3 001356679
4 22444466788
5 000
_____ 13. Josh got the lowest score, what was his score?
(a) 28 (b) 2 (c) 0 (d) 5 (e) 0.28

_____ 14. The interquartile range for the distribution of exam scores is
(a) 23 to 44 (b) 32 to 44 (c) 9 (d) 21 (e) 11

_____ 15. The mean of four people in a room is 30 years. A new person whose age is 55 years enters the room.
The mean age of the five people now in the room is
(a) 30 (b) 35 (c) 37.5 (d) 40 (e) Cannot be determined

_____ 16. The five number summary for time spent on the internet each day (min) is 7, 30, 46.5, 77, 151. If 300
students participated in the survey, about how many people spent between 46.5 and 77 minutes on the internet?
(a) 30.5 (b) 75 (c) 25 (d) 100 (e) Cannot be determined
 Part 2: Free Response
Show all your work. Indicate clearly the methods you use, because you will be graded on the correctness of your
methods as well as on the accuracy and completeness of your results and explanations.

17. During the early part of the 1994 baseball season, many fans and players noticed the number of homeruns
being hit seemed unusually large. Here is the dotplot and numerical summary for the number of homeruns hit
by American League and National League teams in the early part of the 1994 season.

Variable n Mean StdDev Min Q1 Median Q3 Max

American 14 56.93 12.69 35.00 49.00 57.50 68.00 77.00

National 14 50.14 11.13 29.00 46.00 50.50 55.00 67.00

a.) Determine if there are any outliers in each distribution. Show your work.

b.) Draw parallel boxplots of these two distributions. Be sure to label the plots and provide a scale.

c.) Write a few sentences comparing the homeruns for each league.
18. How much oil wells in a given field will ultimately produce is key information in deciding whether to drill
more wells. Here are the estimated total amounts of oil recovered from 38 wells in the Devonian
Richmond Dolomite area of the Michigan basin, in thousands of barrels. The data is provided in
ascending order.

a.) Construct a histogram for this distribution. Choose an appropriate bin width, and be sure to provide a
label and scale for each axis.

b.) Based on your histogram, what numerical measures of center and spread would be best to use for this
distribution? Explain your choice.
 19. Does party affiliation differ among the genders? A review of voter registration in a small town yielded the
following table of the number of males and females registered for each party

Party Affiliation Male Female Total

Democrat 300 600 900
Republican 500 300 800
Other 200 100 300
Total 1000 1000 2000

a.) Calculate the conditional distributions for party affiliation among each gender. You may present your results
in either a table or a graph.

b.) Discuss the relationship between gender and party affiliation in two or three sentences.