A real estate agent lists the recent sale prices of 10 homes in a neighborhood. Nine of the homes sold between $250,000 and $300,000, but one home — a historic mansion — sold for $1.2 million. Explain which measure of center, the mean or the median, would better describe the “typical” home price in this neighborhood, and why.

What term describes the value in a data set below which a given percentage of the data falls?

The measure of variation found by subtracting the minimum value from the maximum value is the:

In statistics, the entire group of individuals or objects that we want information about is called the:

What term describes a sample chosen simply because its members were easy for the researcher to reach, such as surveying only people in one’s own neighborhood?

A histogram of marathon finishers’ ages shows most runners between 20 and 40 years old, with a small number of runners in their 60s and 70s creating a long tail extending to the right. Describe the shape of this distribution and explain how the mean and median would likely compare to each other as a result.  

Which type of graph displays categorical data as slices representing each category’s proportion of the whole?

A numerical summary that describes a characteristic of a sample is called a:

A subset of the population that is actually observed or measured is called a:

A licensed vocational nurse (LVN) is reinforcing teaching for the parents of a school-aged child with Type 1 diabetes mellitus who is planning to join a soccer team. Which instruction should the nurse include regarding the management of the child’s diabetes during increased physical activity?