Overview of Statistics
Chance Events
Algebra/Graphing Review
Types of Data
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Information coming from observations, counts, measurements, or responses. Starts with a d.
What is Data?
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The extent to which an event is likely to occur, measured by the ratio of the favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible.
What is probability?
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What is the "x" called in the following algebraic equation:
4x+3 = 15
What is a variable?
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Data that can be put into categories, attributes, labels.
What is Qualitative/Categorical?
50
This Baltimore food staple typically consists of fried chicken wings, western fries, and possibly bread/roll.
What is a chicken box?
50
This paid summer program is available to all Baltimore city public high school students. Applications are open now.
What is YouthWorks?
100
Science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data in order to make decisions. Starts with an s.
What is Statistics?
100
Determining the likelihood of an event happening based on empirical observations of actual outcomes of the event.
What is experimental probability?
100
This variable is plotted using the horizontal axis and this variable is plotted using the vertical axis.
What is x (horizontal) and y (vertical)?
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Data that consists of numerical measurements, numbers, or counts.
What is Quantitative/Numerical?
100
Your 10th grade Chemistry teacher (if you were at CNHS).
Who is Ms. Jolly?
100
A group of this bird, a bird associated with Baltimore, is called an unkindness.
What are Ravens?
150
All the members in a group. (Think about all of the members of a country.)
What is Population?
150
Determining the likelihood of an event happening based on mathematics and pure reasoning (desired outcome/total number of outcomes)
What is theoretical probability?
150
4x+3 = 15
Solve for x.
What is x = 3?
150
Type of random variable that can take an infinite number of values. An example would be the time it takes to run a mile. (We use normal distributions to analyze this type of random variable.)
What are continuous random variables?
150
"2024" is the name of a song released this past December by this American Rapper.
Who is Playboy Carti?
150
According to the two-way frequency table, how many students took English?
What is 26 students?
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A subset, or part, of a larger group.
What is a Sample?
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What is an experiment that approximates a situation in the real world and is used to estimate the probability that event? (You typically run many, many trials of the experiment.)
What is a simulation?
200
This is what type of graph?
What is a scatter plot?
200
Type of random variable that can be counted like the number of wheels on a car. (finite)
What is Discrete?
200
Formerly only available at Taco Bell, this Mountain Dew flavor will now be available at multiple stores for 2024.
What is Baja Blast?
200
Mr. Dingle was born during this decade.
What is the 1970s?
250
The section of a box plot between the first and third quartile is called this.
What is the interquartile range (IQR)?
250
Given a 6-sided die, what is the probability of rolling an even number on your first roll and then an odd number on your second roll?
What is 1/4?
250
An equation with two variables that has an input and an output. Here is an example:
y=4x+8
What is a function?
250
The measurement of how fast a car was going is this type of data.
What is an example of Quantitative Data?
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The Oxford English Dictionary named this the "word of the year" of 2023 and added it to their dictionary.
What is Rizz?
250
This Baltimore delicacy also goes by the scientific name Callinectes sapidus.
What is the blue crab?