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Problem Solving TEST 3

The document contains a series of mathematical problems and scenarios involving statistics, probabilities, and data analysis. Each problem presents a unique situation with multiple-choice answers related to various concepts such as mean, median, probability, and data interpretation. The problems are designed to test understanding of mathematical principles and data analysis techniques.
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Problem Solving TEST 3

The document contains a series of mathematical problems and scenarios involving statistics, probabilities, and data analysis. Each problem presents a unique situation with multiple-choice answers related to various concepts such as mean, median, probability, and data interpretation. The problems are designed to test understanding of mathematical principles and data analysis techniques.
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The scatterplot above shows data for ten charities along with the line of best fit. For the charity with the greatest percent of total expenses spent on programs, which
of the following is closest to the difference of the actual percent and the percent predicted by the line of best fit?
A. 10 percent
B. 7 percent
C. 4 percent
D. 1 percent
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Two data sets of integers each are summarized in the histograms shown. For each of the histograms, the first interval represents the frequency of integers greater
than or equal to , but less than . The second interval represents the frequency of integers greater than or equal to , but less than , and so on. What is the
smallest possible difference between the mean of data set A and the mean of data set B?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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A random sample of 50 people from a town with a population of 14,878 were asked to name their favorite flavor
of ice cream. If 7 people in the sample named chocolate as their favorite ice‑cream flavor, about how many
people in the town would be expected to name chocolate?
A. 350
B. 2,100
C. 7,500
D. 10,500
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Each vertex of a -sided polygon is labeled with one of the letters through , with a different letter at each vertex. If one vertex is selected at random, what is
the probability that the letter will be at the selected vertex? (Express your answer as a decimal or fraction, not as a percent.)
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Which expression represents the result of increasing a positive quantity by ?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Texting Talks on cell phone Does not talk on cell
behavior daily phone daily Total
Light 110 146 256
Medium 139 164 303
Heavy 166 74 240
Total 415 384 799

In a study of cell phone use, 799 randomly selected US teens were asked how often they talked on a cell phone
and about their texting behavior. The data are summarized in the table above. If one of the 799 teens surveyed
is selected at random, what is the probability that the teen talks on a cell phone daily?
A. 1 over 799
B. 415 over 799
C. 384 over 415
D. 384 over 799
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Jeremy deposited x dollars in his investment account on January 1, 2001. The amount of money in the account
doubled each year until Jeremy had 480 dollars in his investment account on January 1, 2005. What is the
value of x ?
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, , , ,
What is the mean of the data shown?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Value Frequency
1 a
2 2a
3 3a
4 2a
5 a
The frequency distribution above summarizes a set of data, where a is a positive integer. How much
greater is the mean of the set of data than the median?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
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A band with members has members who play saxophone. If one band member is selected at random, what is the probability of selecting a band member who
plays saxophone?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Tanya earns $13.50 per hour at her part-time job. When she works z hours, she earns dollars. Which of
the following expressions gives the amount, in dollars, Tanya will earn if she works hours?
A. 3 times, open parenthesis, 13 point 5 0 z, close parenthesis
B. 3 plus 13 point 5 0 z
C. 3 z plus 13 point 5 0 z
D. 13 point 5 0 times, open parenthesis, z plus 3, close parenthesis
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Two different teams consisting of 10 members each ran in a race. Each member’s completion time of the race was recorded. The mean of the completion times
for each team was calculated and is shown below.
Team A: 3.41 minutes
Team B: 3.79 minutes
Which of the following MUST be true?
1. Every member of team A completed the race in less time than any member of team B.
2. The median time it took the members of team B to complete the race is greater than the median time it took the members of team A to complete the race.
3. There is at least one member of team B who took more time to complete the race than some member of team A.
A. III only
B. I and III only
C. II and III only
D. I, II, and III
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The population of City A increased by from to . If the population is times the population, what is the value of ?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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The mean score of 8 players in a basketball game was 14.5 points. If the highest individual score is removed,
the mean score of the remaining 7 players becomes 12 points. What was the highest score?
A. 20
B. 24
C. 32
D. 36
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The scatterplot above shows a company’s ice cream sales d, in dollars, and the high temperature t, in degrees
Celsius (°C), on 12 different days. A line of best fit for the data is also shown. Which of the following could be
an equation of the line of best fit?
A. d equals, 0 point 0 3 t plus 402
B. d equals, 10 t plus 402
C. d equals, 33 t plus 300
D. d equals, 33 t plus 84
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A cherry pitting machine pits pounds of cherries in minutes. At this rate, how many minutes does it take the machine to pit pounds of cherries?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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A kangaroo has a mass of kilograms. What is the kangaroo's mass, in grams?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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The glass pictured above can hold a maximum volume of 473 cubic centimeters, which is approximately 16 fluid
ounces. Jenny has a pitcher that contains 1 gallon of water. How many times could Jenny completely fill the
glass with 1 gallon of water?
A. 16
B. 8
C. 4
D. 3
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What is of ?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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A bag containing 10,000 beads of assorted colors is purchased from a craft store. To estimate the percent of
red beads in the bag, a sample of beads is selected at random. The percent of red beads in the bag was
estimated to be 15%, with an associated margin of error of 2%. If r is the actual number of red beads in the
bag, which of the following is most plausible?
A. r is greater than 1,700
B. 1,300 is less than r, which is less than 1,700
C. 200 is less than r, which is less than 1,500
D. r is less than 1,300
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Station 1 Station 2 Station 3 Station 4 Station 5
$3.699 $3.609 $3.729 $3.679 $3.729
In the table above, Melissa recorded the price of one gallon of regular gas from five different local gas stations
on the same day. What is the median of the gas prices Melissa recorded?
A. $3.679
B. $3.689
C. $3.699
D. $3.729
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Which of the following represents the result of increasing the
quantity x by 9%, where ?
A. 1 point 0 9 x
B. 0 point 0 9 x
C. x plus 9
D. x plus 0 point 0 9
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An object travels at a constant speed of centimeters per second. At this speed, what is the time, in seconds, that it would take for the object to travel
centimeters?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Power capacity
State Low Medium High Total
Texas 4 2 3 9
California 1 0 1 2
Oregon 1 0 1 2
Indiana 0 2 0 2
Colorado 1 1 0 2
Iowa 2 0 0 2
Oklahoma 1 0 0 1
Total 10 5 5 20
The table shows the distribution, by location and power capacity (maximum rate of power generation) of the
twenty largest wind projects in the United States in 2013. The total power capacity of the nine wind projects
located in Texas was 4,952 megawatts (MW), and the total power capacity of the twenty wind projects was
11,037 MW in 2013. The amount of energy produced in one hour at a rate of one megawatt is one megawatt-
hour. If each of the nine Texas wind projects in 2013 had operated continuously for 24 hours at the maximum
rate of power generation, approximately how many megawatt-hours of energy would the nine projects have
produced?
A. 200
B. 5,000
C. 11,000
D. 120,000
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If and , what is the value of ?
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The number k is 36% greater than 50. If k is the product of
50 and r, what is the value of r ?
A. 36
B. 3.6
C. 1.36
D. 0.36
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The weight of an object on Venus is approximately of its weight on Earth. The weight of an object
on Jupiter is approximately of its weight on Earth. If an object weighs 100 pounds on Earth, approximately
how many more pounds does it weigh on Jupiter than it weighs on Venus?
A. 90
B. 111
C. 140
D. 230
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For which of the following data sets is the mean
greater than the median?
A. 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
B. 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80
C. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512
D. 7, 107, 107, 207, 207, 207, 307, 307, 307
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Phone Email
Dinner dance 55% 80%
Football game 20% 10%
Picnic 20% 5%
Pool party 5% 5%
Total 100% 100%
An alumni association survey asked each high school graduate to select the one activity he or she preferred for the association’s next event. Some of
the people responded by phone, and the others responded by email. The table above shows the distribution of preferred activity, in percent, for each
response type used. For the survey, the number of email responses was twice the number of phone responses. If a person who preferred a picnic is
selected at random, what is the probability that the person responded by email?
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Each dot in the scatterplot above represents the height x, in feet, in the high jump, and the distance y, in feet, in
the long jump, made by each student in a group of twenty students. The graph of which of the following
equations is a line that most closely fits the data?
A. y equals, 0 point 8 2 x, plus 3 point 3 0
B. y equals, 0 point 8 2 x, minus 0 point 8 2
C. y equals, 3 point 3 0 x, plus 0 point 8 2
D. y equals, 3 point 3 0 x, minus 3 point 3 0
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The table shows the frequency of values in a data set.
Value Frequency

What is the minimum value of the data set?


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Sample Percent in favor Margin of error
A 52% 4.2%
B 48% 1.6%
The results of two random samples of votes for a proposition are shown above. The samples were selected
from the same population, and the margins of error were calculated using the same method. Which of the
following is the most appropriate reason that the margin of error for sample A is greater than the margin of
error for sample B?
A. Sample A had a smaller number of votes that could not be recorded.
B. Sample A had a higher percent of favorable responses.
C. Sample A had a larger sample size.
D. Sample A had a smaller sample size.
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Each of the dot plots shown represents the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for two classes, class A and class B. Which statement best compares the
standard deviations of the numbers of glue sticks brought in by each student for these two classes?
A. The standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for class A is less than the standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought
in by each student for class B.
B. The standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for class A is equal to the standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in
by each student for class B.
C. The standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought in by each student for class A is greater than the standard deviation of the number of glue sticks
brought in by each student for class B.
D. There is not enough information to compare these standard deviations.
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One of a planet's moons orbits the planet every days. A second moon orbits the planet every days. How many more days does it take the second moon to
orbit the planet times than it takes the first moon to orbit the planet times?
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The density of a certain type of wood is kilograms per cubic meter. A sample of this type of wood is in the shape of a cube and has a mass of kilograms. To the
nearest hundredth of a meter, what is the length of one edge of this sample?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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How many feet are equivalent to yards?
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A list of data values is shown.
, , , , , , , , ,
What is the mean of these data?
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The number is less than the positive number . The number is greater than . The number is how many times ?
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From a population of people, were chosen at random and surveyed about a proposed piece of legislation. Based on the survey, it is estimated that
of people in the population support the legislation, with an associated margin of error of . Based on these results, which of the following is a plausible value for the
total number of people in the population who support the proposed legislation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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, , , , , ,
Which of the following lists represents a data set that has the same median as the data set shown?
A. , , , , ,
B. , , , , ,
C. , , , , ,
D. , , , , ,
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The densities of different concentrations of grape juice are shown in the scatterplot above. According to the
trend shown by the data, which of the following is closest to the predicted density, in kilograms per cubic meter
(kg/m3), for grape juice with a concentration of 60%?
A. 1,200
B. 1,250
C. 1,300
D. 1,350
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The members of a city council wanted to assess the opinions of all city residents about converting an open field
into a dog park. The council surveyed a sample of 500 city residents who own dogs. The survey showed that
the majority of those sampled were in favor of the dog park. Which of the following is true about the city
council’s survey?
A. It shows that the majority of city residents are in favor of the dog park.
B. The survey sample should have included more residents who are dog owners.
C. The survey sample should have consisted entirely of residents who do not own dogs.
D. The survey sample is biased because it is not representative of all city residents.
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The table below shows the high and low temperatures in Houston, Texas, during a five-day period.

What was the mean low temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, during


the five-day period?
A. 48.8
B. 49
C. 59
D. 59.1
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is greater than . What is the value of ?

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