Types of Data
Is the following survey continuous or discrete data?
the heights of our classmates
continuous
Which graph is most appropriate?
To show the amount of money someone has in their bank account at the end of each month.
Line graph
What relationship would you expect to find in graph that shows...
Air pollution levels in a city and childhood asthma rates
strong and positive
A positive and strong relationship will typically have dots scattered randomly throughout the graph.
False
What is the biggest fish?
Whale shark
A survey measured arm length and height. Which is the dependent variable?
arm length
Which graph is most appropriate?
Someone wants to see if there is a relationship between the number of hours someone practices basketball in a week and the number of free throws they can make in 1 minute.
Scatter plot
What relationship would you expect to find in graph that shows...
The number of letters in a student’s name and their height
No relationship
In two-variable data, the dependent variable determines the data of the independent variable
False
What is the world's biggest snake?
The Green Anaconda
Someone collected and compared the heights and arm spans of classmates.
Which variable is dependent?
arm span
Which graph is most appropriate?
to determine the most popular shoe brand sold to make recommendations for stocking a shoe store
Bar graph
What relationship would you expect to find in graph that shows...
the seriousness of a physical injury and the amount of time spent exercising per week
Strong and negative
True
What is the most financially successful media franchise ever?
Pokémon
Belle is conducting an experiment about plant growth. They will plant 12 bean seeds in the same soil and same size of pot. Once the seeds germinate, she will measure the height of each plant every day.
Is the height data qualitative or quantitative? If it is quantitative, is it continuous or discrete?
The height is quantitative data. I know this because Belle will be measuring it and recording a number each day. It is continuous data!
Which graph is most appropriate?
to determine how many cars drive past the school within each hour of the school day.
histogram
What relationship would you expect to find in graph that shows...
the number of hours working at a bank per week and the amount of time spent exercising per week
weak and negative
The amount of cars on the road and levels of snow are being compared in a scatter plot. Cars on the road is the dependent variable.
True
What was the first full-length Disney animated movie
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Belle gave each plant a different amount of water. Each day, she recorded the amount of water, in milliliters that she give each plant. What type of data would this be?
These would be quantitative and continuous data.
Which graph is most appropriate?
To see what percent of people voted for each candid in one city.
circle graph
What are the 5 types of relationship we talked about...
Strong and positive
Weak and positive
Strong and negative
Weak and negative
No relationship
The amount someone works out compared to how much they love sports will have a strong negative relationship.
False
What year did we land on the moon?
1969