Algebra 3-4 Form A Name:

Unit 6C: Statistics

Formative Assessment (Statistics) Period: Date:
Directions: Show enough work for your solution to be reproduced. Place your solutions on spaces provided.
Level 2
1. A local restaurant owner employs 6 high school students who all want to work the same shift during spring
break vacation week. To choose which 2 students who will work the shift, the owner assigns each student
employee a number between 1 and 6 and then she rolls a die twice. The numbers that the die shows
represent the employees who can work the shift (if there are doubles, she rolls again). Is the result a fair
decision? Explain.

2. Find the mean, median, mode, range, upper quartile, lower quartile interquartile range, population standard
deviation, and any outliers for the following set of numbers: 75, 68, 43, 120, 65, 180, 95, 225, 140, 112,
143, 450, 670

Mean:____________ Lower quartile:__________

Median:___________ IQR:__________________

Mode: ____________ Standard Deviation:___________________

Range:____________ Outliers:______________________

Upper quartile:__________
Level 3
3. Some junior varsity football players chose to participate in the voluntary weight training program over the
summer. The table shows the results of who made the varsity team the following year.

Weight Training No Weight Training Totals

Made Varsity 7 2 9
Did Not Make Varsity 5 6 11
Totals 12 8 20

a. Find the probability that a student made Varsity given that they attended the weight training.

b. Find the probability that a student made Varsity given that they did not attend the weight training.

c. Would you recommend the weight training program to junior varsity players? Use your results from
parts a and b to explain your decision.

Level 4

4. You are trying to evaluate the effectiveness

of a certain cold medicine. Based on the table,
would you recommend taking this cold medicine,
or no? Use probabilities calculated from the
table to back up your choice.