Chapter III: Answers to the

2007 AP Statistics Exam

■ Section I: Multiple Choice Section I: Multiple Choice
■ Section I Answer Key and Percent Answering Listed below are the correct answers to the multiple-choice
Correctly questions, the percent of AP students who answered each
■ Analyzing Your Students’ Performance on the question correctly by AP grade, and the total percent
Multiple-Choice Section answering correctly.
■ Diagnostic Guide for the 2007 AP Statistics Exam
■ Section II: Free Response
■ Comments from the Chief Reader
■ Scoring Guidelines, Sample Student Responses, and
Commentary

Section I Answer Key and Percent Answering Correctly

Percent Correct by Grade Total Total

Item Correct Item Correct Percent Correct by Grade
Percent Percent
No. Answer 5 4 3 2 1 No. Answer 5 4 3 2 1
Correct Correct
1 C 89 80 71 65 58 71 21 D 73 53 36 23 12 36
2 E 97 93 88 82 70 85 22 E 98 95 89 76 40 77
3 C 86 61 38 25 20 42 23 B 72 48 32 21 16 35
4 A 93 90 85 77 55 79 24 D 87 78 68 60 43 65
5 C 98 96 90 79 49 81 25 C 75 53 32 20 16 36
6 B 95 85 76 69 62 76 26 C 88 62 37 20 11 39
7 D 98 96 93 90 78 90 27 B 63 37 23 15 11 27
8 C 95 84 64 42 21 58 28 E 81 61 46 36 24 46
9 B 94 90 85 78 60 80 29 E 96 90 79 64 35 70
10 C 98 95 87 76 50 79 30 B 90 64 34 15 8 37
11 C 51 40 37 32 23 35 31 A 95 85 72 57 34 66
12 E 79 56 40 31 22 42 32 E 87 73 62 51 34 59
13 D 98 92 78 60 32 69 33 B 92 83 71 59 39 66
14 B 99 97 93 87 71 88 34 A 53 35 28 25 22 30
15 D 69 45 30 21 14 32 35 D 73 58 48 41 27 47
16 E 87 81 74 67 50 70 36 D 79 52 30 19 13 35
17 A 55 33 25 22 19 28 37 A 95 86 70 53 32 64
18 B 82 62 47 34 18 45 38 E 83 58 33 17 8 36
19 B 69 41 20 10 7 26 39 A 50 27 17 13 11 21
20 E 74 48 31 21 15 34 40 E 96 84 68 50 27 62

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 Analyzing Your Students’ Performance
on the Multiple-Choice Section
If you give your students the 2007 exam for practice, you
may want to analyze the results to find overall strengths and
weaknesses in their understanding of AP Statistics. The
following diagnostic worksheet will help you do this. You
are permitted to photocopy and distribute it to your
students for completion.
1. In each section, students should insert a check mark for
each correct answer.
2. Add together the total number of correct answers for
each section.
3. To compare the student’s number of correct answers for
each section with the average number correct for that
section, copy the number of correct answers to the
“Number Correct” table at the end of the Diagnostic
Guide.
In addition, under each item, the percent of AP students
who answered correctly is shown, so students can analyze
their performance on individual items. This information
will be helpful in deciding how students should plan their
study time. Please note that one item may appear in several
different categories, as questions can cross over different
topics.

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Diagnostic Guide for the 2007 AP Statistics Exam
Exploring Data (Average number correct = 6.3)
Question # 1 7 10 12 15 18 22 24 29 40
Correct/Incorrect
Percent of Students
Answering Correctly 71 90 79 42 32 45 77 65 70 62

Sampling and Experimentation (Average number correct = 4.0)

Question # 2 9 14 20 31 35
Correct/Incorrect
Percent of Students
Answering Correctly 85 80 88 34 66 47

Probability and Simulation (Average number correct = 4.5)

Question # 3 6 8 11 16 19 23 26 36 38
Correct/Incorrect
Percent of Students
Answering Correctly 42 76 58 35 70 26 35 39 35 36

Statistical Inference (Average number correct = 6.8)

Question # 4 5 13 17 21 25 27 28 30 32 33 34 37 39
Correct/Incorrect
Percent of Students
Answering Correctly 79 81 69 28 36 36 27 46 37 59 66 30 64 21

Number Correct
Sampling and Probability Statistical
Exploring Data Experimentation and Simulation Inference
Number of
10 6 10 14
Questions
Average
6.3 4.0 4.5 6.8
Number
(63.0%) (66.7%) (45.0%) (48.6%)
Correct
My Number
Correct

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