AP STATISTICS: Against All Odds Name ____________________________
Video 3 Worksheet
PICTURING DISTRIBUTIONS
1. What shape does the "Weekly Earnings" distribution have? ______________________________________
2. Discuss the findings of the Colorado Springs study of "Comparable Worth."
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3. Which measures of location, the mean or median, is more resistant to the influence of extreme
observations? _____________
4. What numbers make up the five-number summary of a distribution? ______________________________
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5. What study is used to illustrate the use of five-number summaries and boxplots to compare distributions?
Describe the results of this study.
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6. What is the distance between the first and third quartiles called? __________________________________
7. In a normal distribution, what one number can give the most information about the spread of the data?
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8. Which study in the video illustrates the use of standard deviation to measure the spread about the mean as
center? Describe the results of this study.
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