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Charles owns a catering business. The amount his 10 most recent clients spent is shown in the histogram below. Why is the graph misleading?

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A
The x-axis scale shows the data is more clustered than it actually is.
B
The y-axis scale shows the data is more skewed than it actually is.
C
The scales are different on the x-axis and the y-axis.
D
The data is not distributed equally across the x-axis intervals.
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The stem-and-leaf plot below shows the amount of tips received by the servers in a restaurant in one night. Why is the plot misleading?

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A
The plot shows that the data is skewed.
B
There is not an equal number of data points for each stem.
C
The plot shows duplicate data points.
D
The stem does not clearly show the outlier.
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Indira makes a box-and-whisker plot of her data. She finds that the distance from the minimum value to the first quartile is greater than the distance between the third quartile and the maximum value. Which is most likely true?

A
The mean is greater than the median because the data is skewed to the right.
B
The mean is greater than the median because the data is skewed to the left.
C
The mean is less than the median because the data is skewed to the right.
D
The mean is less than the median because the data is skewed to the left.
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A histogram shows data that is skewed to the right. Which most likely describes the relationship between the mean and the median?

A
The mean is greater than the median. The rightmost values in the data set raise the mean more than the median.
B
The median is greater than the mean. The rightmost values in the data set raise the median more than the mean.
C
The mean is greater than the median. The leftmost values in the data set lower the median more than the mean.
D
The median is greater than the mean. The leftmost values in the data set lower the mean more than the median.
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The box-and-whisker plot below shows the age distribution of people at a family reunion.The stem-and-leaf plot below shows the same data.Which of the following best explains why one graph appears skewed and one graph appears symmetrical?

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The scale of the box-and-whisker plot does not start at zero.
B
The interval of the box-and-whisker plot is too large.
C
The interval of the stem-and-leaf plot is not consistent.
D
The scale of the stem-and-leaf plot is too small for the set of data.

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