Vocabulary
Who What Why
Types of Graphs
Measures of Center and Sread
Misc.
100
A characteristic of an individual
What is variable
100
What individuals do the data describe refers to the?
What is who
100
Given the change in a variable over 20 years, which graph would you create?
What is a timeplot
100
Given a set of numbers, what is the first step to finding the median M?
What is organizing the data from smallest to largest
100
Who is the center fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies?
What is Shane Victorino or The Flyin' Hawaiian.
200
What is an individual value that falls outside the overall pattern?
What is an outlier
200
Santa Claus kept track of the GPA's, school attendance, and goodness levels of 28 spring-ford seniors to see who was naughty and nice that year. What is the who in this case?
What is 28 spring-ford seniors
200
Michelle asked her classmates what their favorite color was in hopes of making a pie chart. 20% said red, 10% said macaroni yellow, 50% said tickle me pink, and 5% said black. How many of the students didn't pick a color, and what would she need to add to create an accurate pie chart?
What is 15% and an 'other' category.
200
When finding the five-number summary, what five numbers do you need?
What is min, Q1, M(Q2), Q3, max
200
One of Ms. Saloky's all time favorite band's initials are RHCP. They are better known as The...?
What is Red Hot Chili Peppers
300
When finding the variance of data, the divisor n-1 is called what?
What is degrees of freedom
300
Kanye West surveys 56 'members' of the Pottstown Correctional Facility to see if they watched the 2009 MTV Music Awards and if they believe Beyonce or Taylor Swift should have Music Video of the Year in 2009 to see if the votes were tampered with. What is the why in this case?
What is to see if the votes were tampered with
300
Which type of graph is shows categorical data displayed using non-touching bars?
What is a bar graph
300
You create a histogram on the average weights of the Spring-ford Wrestling Team. You see that your data is symmetric. What should you find to measure the center and spread of this data?
What is the mean and standard deviation.
300
Which Jersey Shore cast member is known as the Staten Island Fairy?
What is Angelina
400
What three things describe the overall pattern of a quantitative variable?
What is shape, center, and spread
400
Phil, Stu, Alan, and Baby Carlos search around the Los Vegas area checking credit card usage, hospital visits, and phone calls from the past 24 hours. They also made a check list to see which casinos they were or were not at. Why might they be doing this?
What is to try to find their friend Doug
400
Name the two types of graphs that would best represent quantitative data?
What is histograms and stemplots (will accept Box and whisker plots)
400
What is the median of the following data: 5 10 15 16 20 22
What is 15.5
400
Opposite of most stores in Montgomery County area, Kenny Chesney feels that if you have No Shoes, No Shirt, you also have this...?
What is no problems
500
What do we call the median of the observations whose position in the ordered list is to the right of the location of the overall median?
What is the third quartile
500
Your college application asks you to fill in the following: 1. Name 2. Area Code 3. Social Security Number 4. Number of siblings Classify each variable as being quantitative or categorical
What is Name- categorical, Area code- categorical, social security #- categorical, Number of siblings- quantitative
500
When there are too many leaves to fit on your stem and leaf plot, and you decide to give each stem two locations on the graph, what is this process called?
What is split stems
500
Name the four steps to finding the outliers using the five-number summary
What is 1. Find IQR 2. 1.5*IQR 3. Q1-(1.5*IQR) 4. Q3+(1.5*IQR)
500
Everyday after school, Meag does SSDH, or soccer practice, shower, dinner, and homework. Zac does GTL, what does GTL stand for?
What is gym, tan, laundry