Tables & Graphs (College Board AP® Statistics)

Exam Questions

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A company sells shirts in three different sizes (small, medium, and large) and in two different colors (white and blue). The incomplete table below shows some information about the number of shirts in each size and each color that the company has in stock.

Size

Small

Medium

Large

Total

Color

White

57

133

Blue

25

Total

63

118

248

How many small, white shirts does the company have in stock?

  • 29

  • 34

  • 38

  • 76

  • 196

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Raj asked all employees at three companies, labeled A, B, and C for anonymity reasons, whether they prefer football or baseball. The results are shown in the mosaic plot below.

A mosaic plot showing preferences: A has 60% football, 40% baseball; B has 20% football, 80% baseball; C has 30% football, 70% baseball.

Which of the following statements cannot be justified from the mosaic plot?

  • The proportion of employees who prefer football to baseball is greater at company A than at company B.

  • The number of employees at company C who prefer football is greater than the number of employees at company B who prefer football.

  • Out of all the employees, the majority prefer baseball.

  • Company B has the most employees out of the three companies.

  • In company A, the majority of employees prefer football.

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During a particular school's sports day, students can choose the number of activities in which they participate. In each activity, the person in first place receives a gold award, the person in second place receives a silver award, and the person in third place receives a bronze award. The graph below shows the relative frequency distribution of the awards received by three students: Peter, Claire, and Nathan.

Stacked bar chart comparing the relative frequency of gold, silver, and bronze awards among Peter, Claire, and Nathan.

Which of the following must be true?

  • Peter received more bronze awards than gold awards.

  • Nathan received more bronze awards than silver awards.

  • Peter received more gold awards than Claire.

  • Peter and Claire received the same number of silver awards.

  • Altogether, the three students received more bronze awards than gold awards.

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In the two-way frequency table below, a sample of 621 college students is classified by the number of portions of fruit or vegetables they eat in a day and the amount of time they spend exercising in a week.

Number of portions of fruit or vegetables in a day

Two or fewer

Three to five

Six or more

Total

Amount of time spent on exercise in a week

Less than two hours

54

63

21

138

Two to six hours

83

112

95

290

More than six hours

11

95

87

193

Total

148

270

203

621

Of the students in the sample who exercise for more than six hours a week, what proportion eat at least three portions of fruit or vegetables in a day?

  • 182 over 193

  • 182 over 473

  • 182 over 621

  • 193 over 621

  • 473 over 621

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Ygrid collected data from 300 households. The number of bedrooms in each house and the number of cars belonging to the residents were recorded. The results are shown in the table below.

Number of bedrooms

One

Two

Three

More than three

Total

Number of cars

Zero

12

8

4

1

25

One

25

56

54

11

146

More than one

7

32

57

33

129

Total

44

96

115

45

300

Which of the following statements about a randomly chosen household from these 300 households is true?

  • If the household has exactly one bedroom, it is more likely to have more than one car than to have exactly one car.

  • If the household has exactly three bedrooms, it is more likely to have more than one car than to have at most one car.

  • The household is more likely to have exactly one bedroom if it does not have a car than if it has at least one car.

  • The household is more likely to have exactly two bedrooms than exactly three bedrooms.

  • The household is more likely to not have a car than to have at least one car.

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