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Grade 11 Math Worksheet - Building Confidence

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Jun simulated 10 flips of a fair coin 100 times and plotted the heads in each set of 10. What does one dot stand for?
- One flip of the coin: heads or tails on that flip
- One set of 10 flips: its number of heads
- One head
Kira simulated 30 rolls of a fair number cube 100 times and plotted the sixes in each set of 30. What does one dot stand for?
Dot plot of 100 sets of 30 fair rolls; dots at each number of sixes: 1: 3, 2: 8, 3: 10, 4: 21, 5: 12, 6: 19, 7: 11, 8: 5, 9: 4, 10: 5, 11: 2. Dot plot of 100 sets of 30 fair rolls; dots at each number of sixes: 1: 3, 2: 8, 3: 10, 4: 21, 5: 12, 6: 19, 7: 11, 8: 5, 9: 4, 10: 5, 11: 2. 100 sets of 30 fair rolls 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 number of sixes - One set of 30 rolls: its number of sixes
- One six
- One roll of the number cube: the face that landed up
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Dot plot of 100 chance deals of the 20 results into two groups of 10 (difference in mean growth, plant food − plain water, cm, rounded to the nearest 1): -2: 7, -1: 18, 0: 42, 1: 24, 2: 7, 3: 2.
Luz mixed the growth numbers of 20 bean plants, dealt them at random into two groups of 10 a hundred times, and plotted each difference in means. What does one dot stand for?
- One plant's growth
- One random deal: the difference between its two group means
- The real difference the plant food made to the growth of these bean plants
Noah's coin landed heads 8 times in 10 flips. The plot shows 200 sets of 10 flips of a fair coin. In how many sets were there 8 or more heads?
Dot plot of 200 sets of 10 fair flips; dots at each number of heads: 1: 2, 2: 6, 3: 31, 4: 32, 5: 53, 6: 38, 7: 25, 8: 12, 9: 1. Dot plot of 200 sets of 10 fair flips; dots at each number of heads: 1: 2, 2: 6, 3: 31, 4: 32, 5: 53, 6: 38, 7: 25, 8: 12, 9: 1. 200 sets of 10 fair flips 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 number of heads Pia's number cube showed 8 sixes in 30 rolls. The plot shows 100 sets of 30 rolls of a fair cube. In how many sets were there 8 or more sixes?
Dot plot of 100 sets of 30 fair rolls; dots at each number of sixes: 1: 1, 2: 6, 3: 13, 4: 18, 5: 20, 6: 15, 7: 13, 8: 6, 9: 5, 10: 2, 11: 1. Dot plot of 100 sets of 30 fair rolls; dots at each number of sixes: 1: 1, 2: 6, 3: 13, 4: 18, 5: 20, 6: 15, 7: 13, 8: 6, 9: 5, 10: 2, 11: 1. 100 sets of 30 fair rolls 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Number of sixes Ren's class tested plant food on 20 bean plants, assigned at random. The plant-food group grew 2 cm more on average. In how many chance deals was the difference 2 cm or more?
Dot plot of 100 chance deals of the 20 results into two groups of 10 (difference in mean growth, plant food − plain water, cm, rounded to the nearest 1): -3: 1, -2: 13, -1: 23, 0: 28, 1: 21, 2: 9, 3: 5. Dot plot of 100 chance deals of the 20 results into two groups of 10 (difference in mean growth, plant food − plain water, cm, rounded to the nearest 1): -3: 1, -2: 13, -1: 23, 0: 28, 1: 21, 2: 9, 3: 5. 100 chance deals of 20 results into two groups of 10 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 difference in mean growth, plant food - plain water (cm), rounded to nearest 1 Tala's class tested two wing designs on 24 paper airplanes, assigned at random. The long-wing planes flew 3 feet farther on average. In how many chance deals was the difference 3 feet or more?
Dot plot of 100 chance deals of the 24 results into two groups of 12 (difference in mean flight distance, long wings − short wings, feet, rounded to the nearest 1): -3: 7, -2: 11, -1: 21, 0: 12, 1: 22, 2: 21, 3: 2, 4: 4. Dot plot of 100 chance deals of the 24 results into two groups of 12 (difference in mean flight distance, long wings − short wings, feet, rounded to the nearest 1): -3: 7, -2: 11, -1: 21, 0: 12, 1: 22, 2: 21, 3: 2, 4: 4. 100 chance deals: 24 results, two groups of 12, rounded to nearest 1 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 Long wings - short wings: difference in mean flight distance (feet) Zee's 10 bean plants with plant food grew 142 cm in all; the 10 with plain water grew 118 cm in all. What is the difference in mean growth, in cm?
Ari's 8 long-wing paper airplanes flew 196 feet in all; the 8 short-wing ones flew 172 feet in all. What is the difference in mean flight distance, in feet?
In Bo's ruler-drop test, the 10 students without practice had catch distances of 164 cm in all; the 10 with practice, 131 cm. What is the difference in mean catch distance, in cm?