AP STATISTICS 2008

Six full-length Advanced Placement practice Statistics exams are presented in this manual with all questions answered and explained. Equally valuable to prospective test takers is the author’s 15-chapter topic review, covering virtually everything they will encounter on the actual exam. Topics for review are divided into four general themes: Exploratory Analysis, Planning a Study, Probability, and Statistical Inference.Additional multiple-choice and free-response questions with answers are presented at the end of all 15 chapters. Detailed appendices include exam-taking advice, an AP scoring guide, a guide to basic uses of TI-83/TI-84 calculators, and more. This version of the manual comes with an enclosed CD-ROM containing two additional full-length practice exams, thus giving students a total of eight practice exams. The exams on the CD-ROM come with answers, full explanations, and automatic scoring of the multiple-choice questions.

Author's Note
Introduction
• Theme One: Exploratory Analysis
  Graphical Displays
  Summarizing Distributions
  Comparing Distributions
  Exploring Bivariate Data
  Exploring Categorical Data: Frequency Tables
• Theme Two: Planning a Study
  Overview of Methods of Data Collection
  Planning and Conducting Surveys
  Planning and Conducting Experiments
• Theme Three: Probability
  Probability as Relative Frequency
  Combining Independent Random Variables
  The Normal Distribution
  Sampling Distributions
• Theme Four: Statistical Inference
  Confidence Intervals
  Tests of Significance—Proportions and Means
  Tests of Significance—Chi-square and Slope of
• Six Practice Examinations with Answers
• Appendix
  Assumptions
  AP Exam Hints
  AP Scoring Guide
  Basic Uses of the TI-83 Plus
  Formulas
  Table A: Standard Normal Probabilities
  Table B: t-distribution Critical Values
  Table C: x² Critical Values
  Table D: Random Number Table
• Index