ASU BIO 181 Exam 1 Question and Answer
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‣ what are the three components of a scientific argument -✓✓1. claim 2. evidence 3.
reasoning
‣ What is quantitative data? -✓✓Numerical information that can be measured and has a
unit of measurement.
‣ What are the two types of quantitative data? -✓✓Discrete (counted) and continuous
(measured).
‣ qualitative data -✓✓descriptive and based on observations involving the 5 senses
‣ Variable -✓✓A quantity that can be changed
‣ Constant -✓✓Does not change value
‣ Dependent variable is what coordinate -✓✓X axis
‣ Independent variable is what coordinate -✓✓Y axis
‣ Frequency -✓✓The number of occurrences a data point is found in a data set
‣ Relative frequency -✓✓Tell you how often something happens compared to the total
number of times it could have happened. A proportion expressed as a decimal,
percentage, or fraction.
‣ Minimum -✓✓Lowest number in the data set
‣ Maximum -✓✓Highest number in the data set
‣ Median -✓✓Middle number in the data set
‣ Mode -✓✓The value that occurs most frequently in a given data set.
‣ Mean -✓✓The average. Calculated by adding all the numbers together, and dividing
by how many numbers in the set. Represented by Greek letter
‣ Standard deviation -✓✓A measure of how spread out a data is around its mean. It tells
you how much, on average, data points deviate from the central tendency (average) of
data set
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‣ what are the three components of a scientific argument -✓✓1. claim 2. evidence 3.
reasoning
‣ What is quantitative data? -✓✓Numerical information that can be measured and has a
unit of measurement.
‣ What are the two types of quantitative data? -✓✓Discrete (counted) and continuous
(measured).
‣ qualitative data -✓✓descriptive and based on observations involving the 5 senses
‣ Variable -✓✓A quantity that can be changed
‣ Constant -✓✓Does not change value
‣ Dependent variable is what coordinate -✓✓X axis
‣ Independent variable is what coordinate -✓✓Y axis
‣ Frequency -✓✓The number of occurrences a data point is found in a data set
‣ Relative frequency -✓✓Tell you how often something happens compared to the total
number of times it could have happened. A proportion expressed as a decimal,
percentage, or fraction.
‣ Minimum -✓✓Lowest number in the data set
‣ Maximum -✓✓Highest number in the data set
‣ Median -✓✓Middle number in the data set
‣ Mode -✓✓The value that occurs most frequently in a given data set.
‣ Mean -✓✓The average. Calculated by adding all the numbers together, and dividing
by how many numbers in the set. Represented by Greek letter
‣ Standard deviation -✓✓A measure of how spread out a data is around its mean. It tells
you how much, on average, data points deviate from the central tendency (average) of
data set
