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Question 1
A mother is keeping a record of how her new baby’s weight changes as the baby grows. The mother's record is shown in the table below.
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Students need to compare the purpose of different representations of the same data to determine which is the most appropriate.
A line graph should be used to show how continuous data change over time. Jorge exercised for 50 minutes and checked his heart rate every 5 minutes. He displayed the data in the line graph shown.
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Leroy has a number cube with sides labeled 1 through 6. He tosses the number cube 4 times. Each toss results in a 5.
What is the likelihood that the next toss will result in a 5?
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Students need to make predictions that are based on theoretical or experimental results.
For example, the spinner shown has 8 equal sections.
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Tonya and her friends earned extra money by mowing lawns around their neighborhood. Tonya created a table to show their earnings.
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Students need to find the mean (a measure of center) for two sets of data and use those means to compare and draw a conclusion about the sets of data.
Consider the data sets, in order from least to greatest, of the original earnings (Pedro’s earnings as $8) versus the corrected earnings (Pedro’s earnings as $24).
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Local residents have requested a traffic light at the intersection of Polk Road and Vine Street. They claim that the intersection has become unsafe for their children due to the high volume of drivers using these roads as shortcuts during rush hour from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
In response, the street department installed a device that would count cars going through the intersection. The device counted the total number of cars each day for a two-week period. The department used the results to determine the average number of cars passing through the intersection each day. They decided the number was normal for an intersection with no light, and refused the residents’ request.
In your Answer Document, explain how the residents can claim that the method the department used to collect the data does not provide valid information for evaluating their request.
Explain how the department’s method can be altered to provide more valid data. (2 points)
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Students need to evaluate the validity of claims and predictions that are based on data by examining the appropriateness of data collection methods.
For example, Kelly wants to find out the favorite song of the students in her class. She decides to create a survey that lists 5 songs to choose from and she gives the survey to 10 of her friends to make her decision.
The information that Kelly collects is not valid because she asks only her friends, which is a biased (non-representative) sampling. Her friends’ tastes may not be representative of those of the class.
Instead, Kelly should give the survey to a random sampling of students in her class. One way she could do this is to arrange the students’ names in alphabetical order and give the survey to every third student. This method would result in a random sampling, and the data from the survey will be valid.
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A banquet center offers a choice of 3 salads, 5 main courses and 4 desserts.
How many different meals can be created by selecting one salad, one main course and one dessert?
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Students need to recognize the situations when the Fundamental Counting Principle should be used to determine the total number of possible outcomes for situations.
For example, Katie is making an ice cream sundae. She wants to make a sundae with 1 flavor of ice cream and 1 topping. She has 4 flavors of ice cream and 3 toppings to choose from.
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The bar graph shows the number of customers in Rio’s restaurant each day last week.
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Students need to interpret graphical displays of data to calculate measures of center for the data set.
Consider the data provided on a town’s high temperatures over the course of one week.
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A town census was conducted every year for the past 10 years. The scatterplot below shows the results of the census.
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Students need to construct convincing arguments based on an analysis of data and interpretations of graphs.
A store received a shipment of 64 boxes of crayons. The manager recorded how many boxes the store had left after each of 6 weeks. The data are shown in the scatterplot.
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