AP Statistics Review #1

1. Jenny is 5’10” tall and is worried about her height. The heights of girls in the school are approximately
normally distributed with a mean of 5’5” and a standard deviation of 2.6”. What is the percentile rank of
Jenny’s height?
a. 59
b. 65
c. 74
d. 92
e. 97

2. A set of 5,000 scores on a college readiness exam are known to be approximately normally distributed with
mean 72 and standard deviation 6. To the nearest integer value, how many scores are there between 63
and 75?
a. 0.6247
b. 4,115
c. 3,650
d. 3,123
e. 3,227

3. Which of the following statements are true?

I. The median is resistant to extreme values.
II. The mean is resistant to extreme values
III. The standard deviation is resistant to extreme values
a. I only
b. II only
c. III only
d. II and III only
e. I and III only

Free Response:

1. Which of the following are examples of quantitative data?

a. The number of years each of your teachers has taught
b. Classifying a statistic as quantitative or qualitative
c. The length of time spent by the typical teenager watching television in a month
d. The daily amount of money lost by the airlines in the 15 months after the 9/11 attacks
e. The colors of the rainbow

2. Which of the following are discrete and which are continuous?

a. The weights of a sample of dieters from a weight-loss program
b. The SAT scores for students who have taken the test over the past 10 years.
c. The AP Statistics exam scores for the almost 50,000 students who took the exam in 2002.
d. The number of square miles in each of the 20 largest states
e. The distance between any two points on the number line.

over
1. Mickey Mantle played with the New York Yankees from 1951 through 1968. He had the following number
of home runs for those years: 13, 23, 21, 27, 37, 52, 34, 42, 31, 40, 54, 30, 15, 35, 19, 23, 22, 18. Were any of
these outliers? Explain.