Statistics
Johnny poses the question, "how long are great white sharks?". What type of question is Johnny asking?
What is a statistical question.
4 sides and 4 angles with a sum of 360.
What is a quadrilateral.
The sum of the angles of a triangle.
What is 180 degrees.
Given a quadrilateral with angles measuring 72, 89, and 49 degrees, what is the measure of the 4th angle?
What is 150 degrees,
A group of volunteers planted trees in a city park for 8 days. They recorded the number of trees they planted each day. Marta orders the data from least to greatest and uses the middle number of the data to represent the data set. Marta has found what?
What is the median.
2 sets of parallel sides and 4 right angles.
What is a rectangle.
A triangle with 2 equal sides and 2 equal angles.
What is an isoceles triangle.
Given a triangle with angles measures of 56 and 72 degrees, what is the measure of the third angle?
What is 52 degrees.
Tessa writes articles for a women's health magazine. She has written 7 articles this year with lengths of 8 paragraphs, 9 paragraphs, 8 paragraphs, 6 paragraphs, and 7 paragraphs. She finds the sum of these numbers and then divides it by 5. What was Tessa calculating?
What is the mean.
4 congruent sides, 2 sets of parallel sides
What is a rhombus
A triangle with no equal sides and no equal angles.
What is a scalene triangle.
If the mean of the data set is 14, is the value of x 6 or 12?
12, 19, 9, 14, 18, x
What is 12.
Jordan looks at a data set with the numbers
9, 7, 5, 7, 9, 7, 5, 7. Jordan selects 7 to represent the data. Jordan has selected which measure of center?
What is the mode.
A special type of rectangle that has 4 congruent sides.
What is a square.
A triangle with 2 acute angles and one 90 degree angle.
What is a right triangle.
If the range is 10, is m equal to 50 or 19?
16, 24, 21, m, 20, 17, 26, 20
What is 19.
Lou is collecting data on test scores. He found that students had the following scores on their math final:88%, 79%, 91%, 96%, 98%, 90%, 85% and 42%. Lou wants to calculate the mean, but first removed 42% from the data. What word best describes 42%.
What is outlier?
Always a quadrilateral but never a parallelogram.
What is a trapezoid.
When two angles have a sum of 90 degrees they have a special name.
What is complementary.
5 students donated bottle caps to charity. Below is what the number they each submitted. What is the average number of bottle caps the 5 students donated?
85, 87, 88, 89, 86
What is 87.