AP Statistics Fun Questions
What is an AP Statistics student called?
A statlete
What city does Ms. Pearlman live in?
San Mateo
The most frequently occurring value in a data set.
What is mode?
A survey of 200 high-schoolers finds 118 prefer texting over calling. You want to test whether more than half of all teens prefer texting.
What is a one-proportion z-test?
This is what Ms. Pearlman says when someone comes into class close to the 1 minute bell.
What is "living on the edge"
Where is Ms. Pearlman moving to?
Olympia, Washington
What are the AP math tests offered by Carlmont?
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
AP Statistics
A sample statistic used to guess the population mean.
What is x-bar?
Random samples of 50 students from City A and 50 from City B give mean commute times of 28 min and 24 min. You want to know if the mean commutes differ between the two cities.
What is a two-sample t-test for means?
It's not HIPKE it's?
What is NIPKE?
This is Ms. Pearlman's favorite sport.
What is pickleball?
Who is the best teacher at Carlmont High School?
What is MS. PEARLMAN?
This graph plots points to show the relationship between two quantitative variables.
What is a scatterplot?
You sort 100 M&M’s by color and compare the counts to the company’s claimed color percentages to see if the mix is off.
What is a chi-square goodness-of-fit test?
How many days left after May 12th is Pearlman teaching stats at Carlmont?
18
The amount of years that Ms. Pearlman has taught AP Statistic at Carlmont?
What is 19
What is the biggest subject department in the school?
What is the English department?
The letter that stands for the correlation coefficient.
r! Yes my pirates
A table records students’ preferred music genre (Pop, Rock, Classical) and their current mood (Happy, Neutral, Stressed). You check if music preference is related to mood.
What is a chi-square test of independence (association)?
How many assignments are in the TOC Review in total? (including ones we have not done)
22
What is the highest level math class that Ms. Pearlman taught?
Linear Algebra
What year was Carlmont founded?
What is 1952?
In the phrase “95% confidence interval,” the 95% refers to this long-run success rate of the method.
What is confidence level?
For 30 classmates you record hours studied and exam scores. You test whether study time has a significant linear relationship with score (non-zero slope).
What is a LinReg (t)-test for the slope in a least-squares regression