AP Statistics Chapter 1 Test
Part 1: Multiple Choice. Circle the letter corresponding to the best answer.
1. At the beginning of the school year, Mrs. Mallon from Discovery High School asks every student
in her classes to fill out a survey that asks for their age, gender, how long they have lived at their
current address, their favorite school subject, and whether they plan to go to college after high
school. Which of the following best describes the variables that are being measured?
(a) 4 quantitative variables: all discrete
(b) 5 quantitative variables: 3 discrete and 2 continuous
(c) 3 categorical variables, 2 quantitative (discrete) variables
(d) 2 categorical variables, 3 quantitative (continuous) variables
(e) 3 categorical variables, 2 quantitative (continuous) variables
2. Ms. Adkins picked up 12 items in the grocery store with a mean cost of $3.25. Then she added an
apple pie that costs $6.50. What is the new mean for all 13 items?
(a) $3.00
(b) $3.50
(c) $3.75
(d) $4.88
(e) None of the above
3. The states differ greatly in the kinds of severe weather that afflict them. The histogram below
shows the distribution of average annual property damage caused by tornadoes over the period of 50
years in the United States.
Which of the following values could be the median?
(a) 8
(b) 12
(c) 25
(d) 34
(e) 50
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Questions 4 and 5 refer to the following scenario:
A random sample of 50 students reported their gender, then selected from 4 options of one word
that best described how they felt at the time. The results are summarized in the table.
4. What percentage of males felt tired? Is this value a statistic or a parameter?
(a) 1.2%, statistic
(b) 12.0%, parameter
(c) 12.0%, statistic
(d) 57.1%, parameter
(e) 57.1%, statistic
5. The mosaic plot displays the distribution of emotion by gender for the random sample of 50
students. Which of the following is the best evidence that there is an association between gender and
emotion?
(a) There were more females in the study than males.
(b) Females were more likely to be excited than to be any other emotion.
(c) Males were more likely to be tired than any other emotion.
(d) Knowing a student’s gender is helpful for predicting their current emotion.
(e) Females were equally likely to feel calm or motivated.
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6. The pie chart describes the distribution of state tree types for the 50 states in the United States.
The category “Other” include all trees that are the state tree for two or fewer states. Which of the
following conclusions can we draw from this chart?
(a) Some states have not designated a “state tree.”
(b) The cottonwood is the state tree for 12 states.
(c) Taken together, oak, pine, and maple are the state trees for more than half the states.
(d) There are 10 states that have designated a pine as their state tree.
(e) There is no state that has designated the Eastern Red Cedar as its state tree.
7. If a distribution is approximately symmetric, which of the following is true?
(a) The mean must be less than the median.
(b) The mean and median must be approximately equal.
(c) The mean must be greater than the median.
(d) The mean is either equal to or less than the median,
(e) It’s impossible to tell which of the above statements is true without seeing the data.
8. Mrs. Abbey collects health data on many women in each of several small countries. One of the
variables measured for each woman in the study is her weight in pounds. The following list gives the
five-number summary for the weights of adult women in one of the countries.
Country A: 92, 110, 120, 160, 240
About what percent of Country A women weigh between 110 and 240 pounds?
(a) 50%
(b) 65%
(c) 75%
(d) 85%
(e) 95%
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9. A sample of 250 high school students were asked, “If you had $1000 to contribute to one kind of
charitable organization, which type of organization would you choose? Here is a two-way table that
displays data on gender and response to this question.
Which of the following conclusions seems to be supported by the data?
(a) Most of the females who chose a health organization would have chosen an environmental
organization as their second choice, had they been asked.
(b) There is no association between gender and choice of organization.
(c) The proportion of males who said they would contribute to an environmental organization is
higher than the proportion of females who said they would contribute such an organization.
(d) None of the students surveyed said they would contribute to religious organizations.
(e) The marginal relative frequencies of organization are 140, 110.
10.A small company estimating its photocopying expenses finds that the mean number of copies
made per day for the past 12 months is 258 copies per day with a standard deviation of 24 copies per
day. Which of the following is a correct interpretation of standard deviation?
(a) The number of copies made per day was always between 234 and 282.
(b) The number of copies made each day is exactly 24 away from the mean.
(c) The difference between the mean number of copies made per day and the median number of
copies made per day is 24.
(d) The number of copies made each day typically varies by about 24 copies from the mean.
(e) 1.5 times the interquartile range of copies made per day is 24.
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