Box and whisker (need a pencil)
Central Tendency
Percentiles
Box and Whisker Plot
Earlier This Year...
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The data for 12 students' test scores are 45, 55, 61, 68, 70, 71, 75, 76, 80, 81, 90, 100. Q2 is this number.

What is 73

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The most frequently occurring score in a distribution.

What is the Mode

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If someone scored equal or higher than 85% of the other testers in math on an SAT they are at this percentile.

What is the 85th?

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What numbers are used to create the whiskers for a box and whisker plot?

What are the Maximum & Minimum

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It's when we watch what people do instead of asking them what they think.

What is an observation

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The data for 12 students' test scores are 45, 55, 61, 68, 70, 71, 75, 76, 80, 81, 90, 100. The IQR is this

What is 16

200

Sixteen college freshmen were asked to record the number of hours students commute to and from school in a week. Here are their data: 2, 4, 6, 0, 1, 10, 9, 0, 6, 3, 6, 8, 5, 4, 6, 2. This is median of their times

What is 4.5

200

A person scores at the 47th percentile. This percent of people scored higher.

What is 53?

200

This percentage of data falls in between Q3 and Q1

What is 50%

200

It is created by overrepresenting a group in a sample or using poor survey questions like those with jargon.

What is bias.

300

The data for 12 students' test scores are 45, 55, 61, 68, 70, 71, 75, 76, 80, 81, 90, 100. The 5 number summary is this (you must get all 5)

What are 45, 64.5, 73, 80.5, and 100

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"x-bar" and "mu" are symbols that mean this

What is the mean

300

It is another name for the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles in a box and whisker plot?

What are Q1,Q2,Q3

300

These are the Five Number Summary for a box and whisker plot

What are the Min, Q1, Median or Q2, Q3, Max

300

The act of repeating an experiment to try to get similar results in order to verify your outcome.

What is replication

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The data for 12 students' test scores are 45, 55, 61, 68, 70, 71, 75, 76, 80, 81, 90, 100.Assuming your score is a whole number, this is the highest you could score and remain in quartile 3

What is 80

400

These cause us to use the median instead of the mean.

What are outliers.

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There are 100 students in EMK's graduating class and someone finished with a GPA in the 85th percentile. This is their class rank?

What is 15th

400

A box and whisker divides data into 4 groups known as this.

What are quartiles

400

The name of this type of distribution.


What is Skewed Right.

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The data for 12 students' test scores are 45, 55, 61, 68, 70, 71, 75, 76, 80, 81, 90, 100. This is the lower bound for an outlier. Do not round

What is 40.5

500

This is the formula to find the upper limit for outliers in a data set

What is Q3 + 1.5*IQR

500

This percentile is the cut off (dividing line) between the 3rd and 4th quartiles in a box and whisker plot

What is the 75th

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 Here is a data set: 2, 4, 6, 0, 1, 10, 9, 0, 6. This is the Interquartile Range

What is 7
Q3-Q1: 7.5-.5

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The type of sampling when you randomly pick the first twenty people you see in the hallway.

What is convenience