2015 AP® STATISTICS FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS

5. A student measured the heights and the arm spans, rounded to the nearest inch, of each person in a random
sample of 12 seniors at a high school. A scatterplot of arm span versus height for the 12 seniors is shown.

(a) Based on the scatterplot, describe the relationship between arm span and height for the sample of 12 seniors.

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Let represent height, in inches, and let represent arm span, in inches. Two scatterplots of the same data
are shown below. Graph 1 shows the data with the least squares regression line ˆ 11.74 0.8247 , and
graph 2 shows the data with the line .

(b) The criteria described in the table below can be used to classify people into one of three body shape
categories: square, tall rectangle, or short rectangle.
Square Tall Rectangle Short Rectangle
Arm span is equal to height. Arm span is less than height. Arm span is greater than height.

For which graph, 1 or 2, is the line helpful in classifying a student’s body shape as square, tall
rectangle, or short rectangle? Explain.

Complete the table of classifications for the 12 seniors.

Frequency

(c) Using the best model for prediction, calculate the predicted arm span for a senior with height 61 inches.

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 2014 AP® STATISTICS FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS

1. An administrator at a large university is interested in determining whether the residential status of a student is
associated with level of participation in extracurricular activities. Residential status is categorized as on campus
for students living in university housing and off campus otherwise. A simple random sample of 100 students in
the university was taken, and each student was asked the following two questions.
Are you an on campus student or an off campus student?
In how many extracurricular activities do you participate?
The responses of the 100 students are summarized in the frequency table shown.
Residential Status
Level of Participation in
On campus Off campus Total
Extracurricular Activities
No activities 9 30 39
One activity 17 25 42
Two or more activities 7 12 19
Total 33 67 100

(a) Calculate the proportion of on campus students in the sample who participate in at least one extracurricular
activity and the proportion of off campus students in the sample who participate in at least one
extracurricular activity.
On campus proportion:

Off campus proportion:

The responses of the 100 students are summarized in the segmented bar graph shown.

(b) Write a few sentences summarizing what the graph reveals about the association between residential status
and level of participation in extracurricular activities among the 100 students in the sample.

GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

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(c) After verifying that the conditions for inference were satisfied, the administrator performed a chi-square test
of the following hypotheses.
H 0 : There is no association between residential status and level of participation in extracurricular activities
among the students at the university.
H a : There is an association between residential status and level of participation in extracurricular activities
among the students at the university.
The test resulted in a p-value of 0.23. Based on the p-value, what conclusion should the administrator make?

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 2012 AP® STATISTICS FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS
1. The scatterplot below displays the price in dollars and quality rating for 14 different sewing machines.

Describe the nature of the association between price and quality rating for the sewing machines.

One of the 14 sewing machines substantially affects the appropriateness of using a linear regression model
to predict quality rating based on price. Report the approximate price and quality rating of that machine and
explain your choice.

Chris is interested in buying one of the 14 sewing machines. He will consider buying only those machines
for which there is no other machine that has both higher quality and lower price. On the scatterplot
reproduced below, circle all data points corresponding to machines that Chris will consider buying.

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5. The following histograms summarize the teaching year for the teachers at two high schools, A and B.

Teaching year is recorded as an integer, with first-year teachers recorded as 1, second-year teachers recorded as
2, and so on. Both sets of data have a mean teaching year of 8.2, with data recorded from 200 teachers at High
School A and 221 teachers at High School B. On the histograms, each interval represents possible integer values
from the left endpoint up to but not including the right endpoint.
The median teaching year for one high school is 6, and the median teaching year for the other high school is
Identify which high school has each median and justify your answer.

An additional 18 teachers were not included with the data recorded from the 200 teachers at High School A. The
mean teaching year of the 18 teachers is 2.5. What is the mean teaching year for all 218 teachers at High School A?

The standard deviation of the teaching year for the 221 teachers at High School B is 7.2. If one teacher is selected at
random from High School B, what is the probability that the teaching year for the selected teacher will be within 1
standard deviation of the mean of 8.2 ? Justify your answer.

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