Strength of Correlation — Unit test Answers

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5

The table shows the probabilities of certain prizes in a restaurant’s contest where the first 100 customers are winners.

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A
It increases the mean value of the prizes.
B
It decreases the mean value of the prizes.
C
It increases the median value of the prizes.
D
It decreases the median value of the prizes.
7

The graph shows a distribution of data with a standard deviation of 6.

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A
It is within 1 standard deviation of the mean.
B
It is within 2 standard deviations of the mean.
C
It is exactly 3 standard deviations from the mean.
D
It is exactly 4 standard deviations from the mean.
8

The table shows the height, in meters, of an object that is dropped as time passes until the object hits the ground.A line of best fit for the data is represented by h = –21.962x + 114.655. Which statement compares the line of best fit with the actual data given by the table?

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A
According to the line of best fit, the object would have hit the ground 0.6 seconds later than the actual time the object hit the ground.
B
According to the line of best fit, the object was dropped from a lower height.
C
The line of best fit correctly predicts that the object reaches a height of 40 meters after 3.5 seconds.
D
The line of best fit predicts a height of 4 meters greater than the actual height for any time given in the table.
11

Which data set has an outlier?

A
6, 13, 13, 15, 15, 18, 18, 22
B
4, 4, 4, 8, 9, 9, 11, 18
C
2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17
D
3, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10
12

The two conditional relative frequency tables below show the results of a survey asking students whether they are taking a foreign language or not.Table B: Frequency of Foreign-Language Studies by RowWhich table could be used to answer the question "Assuming a student is taking a foreign language, what is the probability the student is also in high school?”

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Table A, because the given condition is that the student is in high school.
B
Table A, because the given condition is that the student is taking a foreign language.
C
Table B, because the given condition is that the student is in high school.
D
Table B, because the given condition is that the student is taking a foreign language.
13

The graph shows a distribution of data.

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A
The data has a standard deviation of 0.1.
B
The mean of the data is greater than 0.5.
C
A value of 0.7 is within 1 standard deviation of the mean.
D
A value of 0.9 is more than 2 standard deviations from the mean.
15

The table shows the shoe sizes of women of different ages.

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A
a weak positive correlation
B
a strong positive correlation
C
a weak negative correlation
D
a strong negative correlation

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