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Unit 1 - Activity 15 - Graphical Representation of Data Test

This document contains 20 questions about graphical representation of data including bar graphs, histograms, frequency tables, and broken-line graphs. Questions ask students to determine appropriate graph types to display different data sets, identify intervals and frequencies, compare variables, and improve graphs. Students are provided various data sets representing topics like quiz scores, fish masses, food preferences, wind speeds, and sprinter speeds to analyze and represent graphically.

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Unit 1 - Activity 15 - Graphical Representation of Data Test

This document contains 20 questions about graphical representation of data including bar graphs, histograms, frequency tables, and broken-line graphs. Questions ask students to determine appropriate graph types to display different data sets, identify intervals and frequencies, compare variables, and improve graphs. Students are provided various data sets representing topics like quiz scores, fish masses, food preferences, wind speeds, and sprinter speeds to analyze and represent graphically.

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Unit 1 - Activity 15 - Graphical Representation of Data Test

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7. Explain the differences between a bar graph and a histogram.

8. Describe the difference between a discrete variable and a continuous variable.

9. Can a discrete variable have non-integer values? Support your answer with an example.

10. The following graph appeared in a local newspaper.

a) Which age group had the most accidents?

b) How could you improve the graph to make better comparisons between the numbers of accidents for dif-
ferent age groups?
c) How would these improvements affect your answer to part a)?

d) Why can you not make any conclusions about the relationship between drivers’ ages and their risk of
having an accident?

11. The class scores from a mathematics quiz are as follows:

8, 6, 10, 5, 8, 6, 9, 7, 8, 10, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 8, 10, 5, 8, 7

Organize the data in a frequency table.

12. A marine biologist is studying a specific species of fish in a lake. She records the masses of 15 fish, in grams:

315, 282, 400, 220, 336, 414, 278, 212, 510, 326, 407, 296, 390, 483, 356

The data are going to be represented in a histogram.


Determine an appropriate spread for the class intervals.

13. The following graph represents the popularity of different foods among a group of high school students.
Unfortunately, the vertical scale is missing. If 18 students preferred hamburgers, how many students preferred
tacos?

14. The following circle graph represents data from 1500 people. The sector angle for category A is . Determ-
ine the frequency of category A.

Problem

15. The table below shows the lengths of ski poles sold by a sporting goods store last December. Create a histo-
gram and frequency polygon to display this information.

Length (cm) Frequency


125–129 6
130–134 18
135–139 44
140–144 10
145–149 5
16. For a science project, a student tested how long 16 samples of heavy-duty batteries would power a portable
CD player. Here are the running times, in hours:

29, 26, 23, 22, 22, 17, 27, 25, 22, 22, 23, 22, 27, 23, 24, 26

a) Determine the range for these data.


b) Determine a reasonable interval size and the number of intervals.
c) Produce a frequency table for these data.

17. For a science project, a student tested how long 16 samples of alkaline batteries would power a CD player.
Here are the results, in hours:

105, 140, 116, 140, 141, 143, 139, 149, 147, 108, 146, 142, 148, 125, 134, 140

a) Determine the range for these data.


b) Determine a reasonable interval size and the number of intervals.
c) Produce a frequency table for these data.

18. Here is a set of wind-speed measurements (in kilometres per hour) recorded hourly on a relatively calm week-
end. Prepare a frequency table and a histogram for these data.

6 8 10 12 4
4 5 7 7 8
10 5 6 5 6
8 8 8 11 9
7 8 4 4 4
8 10 8 3 4
5 11 9 6 8
10 11 10 5 7
7 8 7 6 6
9 9 7 9 10
19. Here are the numbers of computers sold by a office supply store on the 50 business days before Christmas.
Prepare a frequency table and histogram for these data.

4 8 9 6 7
8 3 4 6 10
6 10 9 12 7
7 4 6 9 8
3 7 8 6 9
9 6 9 4 10
7 9 7 4 8
5 9 6 5 8
7 4 7 9 8
7 3 10 10 8

20. During a 100-m race, the speed of a sprinter was measured each second. The data is shown below.
Construct a broken-line graph to represent this data.

Time (s) Speed (m/s)


0 0.0
1 3.2
2 6.5
3 8.2
4 10.0
5 11.5
6 12.4
7 12.1
8 11.8
9 11.0
10 10.9

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