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Q. When is it best to use a pie chart?
When we have ice cream to go with it.
When we're representing change over time.
When we have different categories.
When we're trying to show parts of a whole.
When we want to show statistical significance.
Q. What does it mean to be precise?
Getting the same result over and over again
Getting the right answer
That one time we were on time
Having good technique
Being unbiased
Q. Which of the following is an example of quantitative data?
"The subject had blue eyes."
"It smelled like a soup made from toenails and cinnamon."
"The material was slippery."
"It jiggled like Jell-O."
"The item weighed 450 grams."
Q. What are qualitative data?
Data that have to do with numbers.
Data that are described by their qualities, like shape, smell, or flavor.
Data that have been collected very carefully.
Data that are fully qualified to be included in our experiment.
Data that were found using an equation.
Q. Which of the following is not necessary for a graph to have?
A title
Properly scaled axes
Labeled axes
Units included in the axes
Ten or more data points
Q. Which of the following is an acceptable procedure when constructing a graph?
Drawing more rows or columns to make the data fit.
Changing the scale halfway across the axis.
Using an axis break for data that don't start at zero.
Eliminating data that don't fit the trend.
Plotting multiple series of data without using a key to distinguish between them.
Q. What does it mean when there is a correlation between sets of data?
There is an observable relationship between two things.
One variable causes another variable to change.
The data were collected at the same time.
One set of data was copied without permission.
One set of data has romantic feelings about another set of data.
Q. What should be our goal when collecting data?
To be accurate
To be precise
To be both accurate and precise
To burn our eyebrows off
To collect data to support our hypothesis
Q. We collect data on the mass of five mice. They are 25 grams, 30 grams, 28 grams, 32 grams, and 30 grams. What is the mean mass of these five mice?
28 grams
29 grams
30 grams
31 grams
145 grams
Q. What is the range for the data we collected on the mice mass in the previous question?
5 grams
25 grams
29 grams
30 grams
145 grams