Simple Quantitative Displays
Simple quantitative displays are essential tools used to present numerical data in a clear and straightforward manner. These displays, ranging from basic charts like bar graphs and line graphs to more intricate diagrams like pie charts and scatter plots, enable viewers to grasp key information quickly. By employing minimalistic design and concise labeling, they facilitate easy interpretation, making complex data sets accessible to a wide audience. Whether illustrating trends, comparisons, or distributions, these displays serve as effective aids in decision-making processes across various fields, from business and economics to science and academia.
Questions
- Is "degree" a discrete or continuous variable?
- What is the minimum, maximum, and range of the data 30, 24, 8, 21, 35, 23, 23, 19, 13, 17?
- This dotplot summarizes total scores for beginning golfers on a 9-hole golf course. What are the mean, median, and mode of the scores?
- What are the two major advantages of both dotplots and stemplots?
- What is a bimodal graph?
- Is a bell curve symmetric, right-skewed, or left-skewed?
- You have final exam scores from two different sections of a Chemistry course and you want to compare them. What special type of stemplot will you use for this purpose?
- For what kind of data would you construct a dotplot or stemplot?
- What is meant by the skewness of a distribution?
- How do you find five numbers which have a mean of 14 and a median of 15?
- How do you write down 5 test results that have their mean median and mode all equallying 6?
- What is the mean, median, and mode for 1,2,1,2,1,3,3,4,3?
- What is the mean, median, and mode for 3.56,4.40,6.25,1.20,8.52,1.20?
- On the day three the family was given five coupons. The value of the coupons was $12, $10, $13, $8, and $7. What is the value of the median coupon?
- Mark’s scores on his first nine assignments are: 10,10,9,9,10,8,9,10,and 8. What are the mean, median, mode, and range of his scores?
- The mean, median, and mode are all equal for this set: (3,4,5,8,x). What's the value of 'x'?
- What set of seven numbers have the same mean, median, and mode?
- If a player has scored Runs - 45,55,25,35,5,15 in No of matches 40,30,30,50,10,20 respectively, what is the median score of the player?
- If you wanted to compare the shoe sizes and the heights of all the students in your math class, what graph would you use?
- Jennifer has the following data: 17, 7, 5, #n#. If the mode is 17, what number does #n# have to be?