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Define accuracy.
What is the degree of closeness of measurements of a quantity to the actual (or accepted) value.
100
Which term is used to indicate the end of a dimension line or leader?
What is Arrowheads
100
What is the US Customary Measurement System?
What is the system of measurement used in the United States.
100
What is the degree to which repeated measurements show the same result?
What is precision.
100
Define a scatter plot.
What is a graph in the coordinate plane representing a set of bivariate data.
200
What term is a standard quantity in terms of which other quantities may be expressed?
What is a unit.
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What is a dimension?
What is a measurable extent, such as the three principal dimensions of an object as in width, height, and depth.
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What term is the distance of a value in a population (or sample) from the mean value of the population (or sample)?
What is standard deviation.
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What is caliper?
What is a measuring instrument having two adjustable jaws typically used to measure diameter or thickness.
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Which term is the rate at which something occurs over a particular period or in a given sample?
What is frequency.
300
What term is a number value or algebraic equation that is used to control the size or location of a geometric figure?
What is a numerical constraint.
300
Define statistics.
What is a collection of methods for planning experiments, obtaining data, organizing, summarizing, presenting, analyzing, interpreting, and drawing conclusions based on data.
300
What does ISO stand for and what is it?
What is International Organization for Standardization, a non-governmental global organization whose principal activity is the development of technical standards through consensus.
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What is SI?
What is an international system of units of measurement consisting of seven base units.
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What is the method of visually displaying a distribution of data values where each data value is shown as a dot or mark above a number line?
What is a line plot.
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What are significant digits?
What is the digits in a decimal number that carry meaning contributing to the precision or accuracy of the quantity.
400
Define mean.
What is a measure of center in a set of numerical data, computed by adding the values in a list and then dividing by the number of values in the list.
400
Define Median
What is A measure of center in a set of numerical data. The median of a list of values is the value appearing at the center of a sorted version of the list – or the mean of the two central values if the list contains an even number of values.
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What term is the action of determining the size, amount, or degree of an object by comparison with a standard unit?
What is to measure.
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What is the value that occurs most frequently in a given data set?
What is mode.
500
Define convert.
What is to change money, stocks, or units in which a quantity is expressed into others of a different kind.
500
What is the group of values that is used to analyze the distribution of data?
What is class interval.
500
Give one definition of scale.
What is 1. A straight-edged strip of rigid material marked at regular intervals and used to measure distances. 2. A proportion between two sets of dimensions used in developing accurate, larger or smaller prototypes, or models of design ideas.
500
Define data.
What is facts and statistics used for reference or analysis.
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Define histogram.
What is a graph of vertical bars representing the frequency distribution of a set of data.
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