Question

Mrs. Montoro's class is participating in the Math Olympics. Each week of the quarter, a challenging math question is posted, and the students individually try to correctly answer the question. The results of the Math Olympics are shown in the dot plot below.

Which of the following statements describe the distribution in the dot plot?
(choose all that is correct)

1. The mean is 5 questions answered correctly
2. most students answered between 3 and 6 questions correctly
3. the median is 5 questions answered correctly
4. the median is 4.5 questions answered correctly
5. most students answered between 5 and 7 questions correctly
6. the mean is 4.5 questions answered correctly
7. the students answered between 1 and 9 questions correctly

Answer 1

Answer: The correct answers are 1, 2, 4, 7

Explanation:

Work for each problem:

1.) 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9 Median: 5 * 2 = 10 / 2 = 5

2.) Correct: The most answers were answered between the numbers 3 and 5.

3.) 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9 (add all) = 108 / 24= 4.5

Answer 2

the correct answers are

2. most students answered between 3 and 6 questions correctly

3. the median is 5 questions answered correctly

6. the mean is 4.5 questions answered correctly

7. the students answered between 1 and 9 questions correctly

Explanation:

for #2-the shape of the data, more than half of the data lies between #3 and #6..so Most students answered between 3 and 6 questions correctly.

for #7-the lowest # of questions answered correctly is 1 and the highest # of questions answered is 9; so it makes Students answered between 1 and 9 questions correctly