Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The
results of a survey showed that 8 students prefer country music, 5 prefer jazz, and 16 prefer rock.
What survey question would bring out this information? a. | Who is your
favorite singer? | c. | What is your
opinion of music? | b. | What is your favorite song? | d. | What is your favorite type of music? | | | | |
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The
following double-bar graph shows the number of students, in each grade, who had perfect attendance at
East Elementary School.
STUDENTS WITH
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
How many 2nd grade boys had perfect attendance? a. | 15
boys | b. | 20
boys | c. | 25
boys | d. | 30
boys | | | | | | | | |
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The
following bar graph shows the number of students in the library club, the band, the 4-H club, and the
soccer team at West Elementary School.
STUDENTS AT
WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
How many more students are in the soccer team than in the 4-H
club? a. | 5
students | b. | 10
students | c. | 15
students | d. | 20
students | | | | | | | | |
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4.
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The
table shows the number of ripe fruit picked from a pear tree over a 5-day
period.
Day | Number of
Pears | Monday | 8 | Tuesday | 9 | Wednesday | 12 | Thursday | 15 | Friday | 16 | | |
Which of the following graphs shows the data from the
table?
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5.
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How
many degrees hotter was it on Wednesday than Thursday?
a. | 30
degrees | b. | 25
degrees | c. | 20
degrees | d. | 15
degrees | | | | | | | | |
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Mae
is selling fruit baskets for her mother’s business. The table below shows the number of fruit
baskets Mae sold last week.
FRUIT BASKET SALES | Day | Number of Baskets | Monday | 13 | Tuesday | 18 | Wednesday | 8 | Thursday | 10 | Friday | 17 | | |
Which of the following shows this information correctly
graphed? a. | FRUIT BASKET SALES
| c. | FRUIT BASKET
SALES
| b. | FRUIT BASKET
SALES
| d. | FRUIT BASKET
SALES
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The
table below shows the number of each kind of flower a florist sold.
FLOWER
SALES | Type | Number
Sold | Rose | 14 | Tulip | 19 | Daisy | 13 | Carnation | 16 | | |
The florist made this bar graph to display the information in the
table.
Which of the amounts from the table is graphed
incorrectly? a. | Carnation | c. | Rose | b. | Daisy | d. | Tulip | | | | |
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The
chart below shows the number of A’s that Mrs. Kimura’s students received on each of their
six tests last year. What is the mean number of A’s received?
NUMBER OF
A’S RECEIVED | Test Number | Number of A’s | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 8 | | |
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The
table below shows the number of car washes Emily and her friends gave four days last
week.
NUMBER OF CAR WASHES | Day | Number of Car Washes | Wednesday | 5 | Thursday | 6 | Friday | 16 | Saturday | 15 | | |
What is the median number of car washes per day Emily and her friends
gave last week? a. | 10 car
washes | b. | 10.5 car
washes | c. | 11 car
washes | d. | 11.5 car
washes | | | | | | | | |
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A
hundred students from the fifth grade voted on their favorite subject in school. Here are the
results. The circle graph has not yet been labeled.
FAVORITE
SUBJECT | Subject | Number of Students | Math | 40 | Science | 20 | History | 10 | English | 30 | | |
Which part of the circle graph represents History? a. | Part
B | b. | Part
D | c. | Part
C | d. | Part
A | | | | | | | | |
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The
graph below represents 200 drinks served at a school cafeteria. How many glasses of lemonade were
served?
a. | 125
glasses | b. | 100
glasses | c. | 50
glasses | d. | 25
glasses | | | | | | | | |
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A
band director surveyed her students to ask them their favorite instrument. The table shows the
results of the survey.
FAVORITE INSTRUMENTS | Instrument | Drums | Flute | Piano | Trumpet | Violin | Number of Students | 5 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 9 | | | | | | |
Which is the most appropriate graph of the information in the table to
show what fraction of the students choose each instrument? a. | FAVORITE
INSTRUMENT
| c. | | b. | | d. | | | | | |
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The
graph below shows the sales of volleyballs over a 5-week period.
Which of the following is a true statement about the
graph? a. | The largest
increase was between week 3 and week 4. | b. | The smallest increase was between week 3 and week
4. | c. | There was no
increase between week 3 and week 4. | d. | The smallest decrease was between week 3 and week
4. | | |
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The
following graph shows the sales of school lunches over the past 4 weeks at Lakefront Elementary
School.
Which statement does NOT describe the data? a. | Girls ate fewer
school lunches than boys. | b. | Boys ate fewer school lunches than
girls. | c. | During week 2, boys ate more school lunches than
girls. | d. | During week 4, girls ate fewer school lunches than
boys. | | |
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Maria
has 5 blue buttons, 10 purple buttons, 4 yellow buttons, and 7 orange buttons in a bag. If she takes
one button out of the bag without looking, which color is MOST LIKELY to be
chosen?
a. | purple | b. | yellow | c. | orange | d. | blue | | | | | | | | |
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The
spinner is divided into four equal parts. Suppose the spinner is spun once. Which statement shown
below is true?
a. | Each outcome
shown on the spinner is equally likely. | b. | B is the least likely outcome. | c. | I is the most
likely outcome. | d. | G is the most likely outcome. | | |
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Samson will spin each spinner once. What is the total number of different outcomes of
a color and a number that can occur?
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Mrs.
Hori made a spinner with the first initials of the three different animals they will study in class
that week. What is the probability of the spinner landing on J?
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A bag
has buttons inside: 3 green, 8 yellow, 7 orange, and 12 red. You cannot see inside the bag when you
reach your hand in to get a button. What is the probability that Hector will reach into the bag and
pick a red button?
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Which
of the following statements is a fact? a. | There are 10 questions on the quiz. | b. | The quiz
questions are too difficult. | c. | Friday is the best day for the quiz. | d. | A good score on
the quiz is important. | | |
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The
following double bar graph shows the number of students in the fifth-grade musical
groups.
Which of the following statements is
true?
a. | More students
are in choir than in orchestra. | b. | More girls than boys are in choir. | c. | There are as
many boys as there are girls in jazz band. | d. | The Marching
Band has the most fifth grade students of the musical groups. | | |
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Which
set of data could be shown by a double bar graph? a. |
| b. | NBA Finals 2003 (points scored)
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| d. | Number of Medals Won at the 2002 Winter
Olympics
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Susan
started babysitting when she was 11 years old. She is now 16.The following line graph shows how much
Susan earned per hour babysitting during these years. How much did she earn per hour when she was 15
years old?
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What
is the trend if the line on a line graph falls from left to right? a. | Staying the
same | c. | Decreasing | b. | Increasing | d. | No trend | | | | |
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Bozeman’s daily high temperatures (°F) for one week were 82, 87, 88, 90, 84,
84, and 80. For this data, set, which of the following is 85? a. | mean | c. | mode | b. | median | d. | range | | | | |
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Which
data set has a mean of 6? a. | 1, 10, 6, 5, 9 | c. | 6, 6, 3, 10, 4 | b. | 2, 2, 8, 4,
9 | d. | 4, 7, 7, 7,
5 | | | | |
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A
soccer team has 12 players. Their ages are 14, 15, 14, 14, 16, 15, 14, 15, 16, 16, 14, 15. What is
the mode of this data set?
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Twenty students in a class named their favorite season. 10 said summer, 5 said winter,
3 said fall, and 2 said spring. Which season will Part 1 of the circle graph
represent?
a. | summer | c. | spring | b. | fall | d. | winter | | | | |
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Tucker organized the 100 books in his classroom into four types. For which type of
book are there about 10 books in the classroom?
a. | Picture
Books | c. | Reference
Books | b. | Nonfiction Books | d. | Chapter Books | | | | |
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Mrs.
Pool asked the students in her computer class how they use the Internet most often. How many students
said they use the Internet most often for e-mail?
a. | About half of
the students | c. | Less than half
of the students | b. | More than half of the students | d. | Almost all of the students | | | | |
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Which
type of graph would work best for showing the rising cost of a postage stamp over the past fifty
years? a. | line
plot | c. | circle
graph | b. | stem-and-leaf plot | d. | line graph | | | | |
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Cereal Adventure at the Mall of America in Minneapolis has huge cereal characters and
objects. Their heights are given in the table below. Which type of graph would work best for showing
this data?
Character or Object | Height in
Feet | Sonny the Cuckoo
Bird | 50 | Trix Rabbit | 36 | Lucky the
Leprechaun | 24 | Wendell the Baker | 22 | Wheaties
box | 24 | Lucky Charms Rainbow
Slide | 25 | | |
a. | bar
graph | c. | line
graph | b. | circle graph | d. | stem-and-leaf plot | | | | |
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The
two line graphs show the number of movies available at a rental store. How has the number of VHS
movies and DVD movies changed in these four years?
a. | At the beginning of 2002, the store had more DVD movies than
VHS movies. | b. | The number of VHS movies has decreased, while the number of DVD
movies has increased. | c. | The number of DVD movies has decreased, while the number of VHS
movies has increased. | d. | The number of movies overall has stayed about the
same. | | |
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34.
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Tanya
tossed a number cube. Which event is least likely? a. | tossing an odd
number | b. | tossing an even number | c. | tossing a
2 | d. | tossing a number
greater than 2 | | |
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Each
friend at Mac’s birthday party wrote his name on a piece of paper and placed the paper in a hat.
At the end of the party, Mac will draw one name without looking and give a prize to that friend. How
many different outcomes are there?
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Suppose you toss a coin. Which event is certain? a. | heads
up | c. | heads up and
tails up | b. | tails up | d. | heads up or tails up | | | | |
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The
following tree diagram shows the sample space for tossing a number cube and a coin. How many possible
outcomes are there?
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38.
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Spinner X and Spinner Y are spun. For which of the following are there 6 possible
outcomes?
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39.
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Andy
spins the spinner. What is the probability that the arrow stops on red?
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40.
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