Question: Which of the following are among the things to remember when creating figures?

Answer: Maintain the scale in the graph

Question: A good rule of thumb when creating an illustration is:

Answer: Make sure your graph communicates only one idea

Question: A distribution of scores in which almost the entire class scored very high, but a few students scored fairly low, would be:

Answer: Negatively skewed

Question: If you have a distribution of 100 scores and you want 20 intervals, what should be the size of your class interval?

Answer: 5

Question: Optimally, when choosing a class interval, you should have approximately this many intervals covering the entire range of data:

Answer: 10 to 20

Question: What type of chart or graph displays class intervals along an x-axis?

Answer: Histogram

Question: What is the frequency distribution that shows frequencies for class intervals along with the cumulative frequency for each?

Answer: Cumulative frequency distribution

Question: What is the term associated with how flat or peaked a distribution appears?

Answer: Kurtosis

Question: What is the vertical axis on a graph called?

Answer: Y-axis

Question: If a distribution is positively skewed, the ____ is greater than the ____.

Answer: Mean / Median