AP Statistics : How to interpret histograms
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Example Question #4 : Graphing Data
Based on the histogram, which of the following sets of values was most common in the sample?
58-64
54-60
62-68
66-72
64-70
62-68
You can see from the histogram that the two most frequent ranges for values are 62-64 and 64-66, with 5 values in each group. And from the answer choices, you should see that only one choice, 62-68, contains both of the high-frequency bars. It also contains the next-highest bar (66-68, with a total of 4), so at 14 total values the range 62-68 has the highest frequency of any of these six-inch-range sets in the choices.
Example Question #1 : How To Interpret Histograms
What is the best measurement of center and spread for the following data set represented by a histogram?
Mean and Interquartile Range
Mean and Standard Deviation
Median and Interquartile Range
Median and Standard Deviation
Mean and Range
Median and Interquartile Range
For skewed distributions, the outliers can greatly affect the value of the mean and the standard deviation. Therefore, the median and IQR would be better measures of center and spread because they are not greatly influenced by outlier values.
Example Question #1 : How To Interpret Histograms
Louie collects data on the amount of sleep students in his class get.
Below is a graphical representation of the data
Which of the following is/are false about Louie's class' data?
i: the student with 2 hours of sleep is an outlier
ii: without the student with 2 hours of sleep the data is roughly normally distributed
iii: without the student with 2 hours of sleep the data is slightly right skewed
iv: the student with 2 hours of sleep is within 2 standard deviations of the mean
ii & iv
i, ii & iii
ii, iii & iv
iii & iv
i & ii
ii & iv
Entering the data into a calculator you can quickly find the mean to be 6.5 and the sd to be 1.6 6.5-3.2=3.3 3.3>2 so iv is false and by virtue of this 2 is an outlier so i is true.
Between ii and iii, the data is not bell shaped, and does exhibit a slight right skew without the mentioned pt due to more density on 5 and 6 hours than 8 and 9
Example Question #1 : How To Interpret Histograms
Louie collected the following data on sleeping habits of his classmates:
Calculate the median, 1st and 3rd quartile (Q1 and Q3) and mode for the data. There are 19 students in the class.
Median:6 Q1:5 Q3:8 Mode:6
Median:7 Q1:6 Q3:9 Mode:8
Median:6 Q1:6 Q3:8 Mode:6
Median:7 Q1:6 Q3:8 Mode:6
Median:6 Q1:5 Q3:9 Mode:8
Median:6 Q1:6 Q3:8 Mode:6
graphing the data, or counting the quarter and halfway points at 10, 15 and 5, results in Q1 and the median both being 6, while Q3 is 8. 6 is the most common value so it is the mode
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