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Midterm Review “FRAPPY” 1
(Free Response AP Problem…Yay!)
The following problem is taken from an actual Advanced Placement Statistics Examination. Your task is to
generate a complete, concise, and clear statistical response in 15 minutes. You will be graded based on the AP
rubric and will earn a score of 0-4. After grading, I will keep these in a binder for your AP Exam preparation.
2002B #5 At a school field day, 50 students and 50 faculty members each completed an obstacle course.
Descriptive statistics for the completion times (in minutes) for the two groups are shown below.
(a) Use the same scale to draw boxplots for the completion times for students and for faculty members.
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(b) Write a few sentences comparing the distributions.
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(c) A new faculty member, who is a former Olympic track star, completes the obstacle course in 3 minutes.
Describe the effect of this new value on the mean and median of the faculty member’s race times without
performing any calculations.
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