Bio 181 Asu Exam 1
Real Test Questions With Step-By-Step
Rationales
what are the three components of a scientific argument - correct answers ✔✔1. claim 2.
evidence 3. reasoning
What is quantitative data? - correct answers ✔✔Numerical information that can be
measured and has a unit of measurement.
What are the two types of quantitative data? - correct answers ✔✔Discrete (counted)
and continuous (measured).
qualitative data - correct answers ✔✔descriptive and based on observations involving
the 5 senses
Variable - correct answers ✔✔A quantity that can be changed
Constant - correct answers ✔✔Does not change value
, Dependent variable is what coordinate - correct answers ✔✔X axis
Independent variable is what coordinate - correct answers ✔✔Y axis
Frequency - correct answers ✔✔The number of occurrences a data point is found in a
data set
Relative frequency - correct answers ✔✔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 - correct answers ✔✔Lowest number in the data set
Maximum - correct answers ✔✔Highest number in the data set
Median - correct answers ✔✔Middle number in the data set
Mode - correct answers ✔✔The value that occurs most frequently in a given data set.
Mean - correct answers ✔✔The average. Calculated by adding all the numbers
together, and dividing by how many numbers in the set. Represented by Greek letter
Standard deviation - correct answers ✔✔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
Real Test Questions With Step-By-Step
Rationales
what are the three components of a scientific argument - correct answers ✔✔1. claim 2.
evidence 3. reasoning
What is quantitative data? - correct answers ✔✔Numerical information that can be
measured and has a unit of measurement.
What are the two types of quantitative data? - correct answers ✔✔Discrete (counted)
and continuous (measured).
qualitative data - correct answers ✔✔descriptive and based on observations involving
the 5 senses
Variable - correct answers ✔✔A quantity that can be changed
Constant - correct answers ✔✔Does not change value
, Dependent variable is what coordinate - correct answers ✔✔X axis
Independent variable is what coordinate - correct answers ✔✔Y axis
Frequency - correct answers ✔✔The number of occurrences a data point is found in a
data set
Relative frequency - correct answers ✔✔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 - correct answers ✔✔Lowest number in the data set
Maximum - correct answers ✔✔Highest number in the data set
Median - correct answers ✔✔Middle number in the data set
Mode - correct answers ✔✔The value that occurs most frequently in a given data set.
Mean - correct answers ✔✔The average. Calculated by adding all the numbers
together, and dividing by how many numbers in the set. Represented by Greek letter
Standard deviation - correct answers ✔✔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
