ISAT Grade 8 Statistics and Probability. Practice it free.

Investigates bivariate data and patterns in scatter plots. This Grade 8 reporting domain maps to 2 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 82 mapped skills

What the test measures

Statistics and Probability skills

Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data
Construct and interpret scatter plots
Use a linear model to fit data and informally assess the fit of the model

Standards basis

Idaho Content Standards (Mathematics) — Idaho

How the ISAT reports it

Idaho ISAT is a state assessment administered to grades 3–8 and 11 and reported against Idaho grade-level content standards rather than a separate national testing framework. The public ISAT page points to summative blueprints and math specifications, while the Idaho Content Standards page shows the math program is organized by grade-band/domain progressions aligned to Idaho standards.

Blueprint & weighting

The public Idaho ISAT page references summative blueprints and item specifications, but the accessible official page content did not expose a published domain-by-domain percentage blueprint for math.

Official sources

Idaho Department of Education — Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT)
Idaho Department of Education — Idaho Content Standards

Practice by skill

Topics mapped to this domain

Scatterplots and trend lines

Grade 818 questions

Two-way tables

Grade 815 questions

Try it now

8 free questions · 0/0 correct

Practice playeasy

A trend line for hours studied $x$ and quiz score $y$ is $y = 4x + 62$ . What score does the line predict for a student who studies $3$ hours?

Substitute $x = 3$ : $y = 4(3) + 62 = 12 + 62 = 74$ .

Practice playeasy

A two-way table has rows Bus/Walk and columns 6th/7th: Bus&6th=12, Bus&7th=8, Walk&6th=4, Walk&7th=16. What fraction of all surveyed were Bus and 6th? Simplify.

$\dfrac{12}{40} = \dfrac{3}{10}$ .

Practice playeasy

A trend line predicts that a bakery will sell $75$ bagels on Monday. The bakery actually sells $79$ bagels. What is the residual (actual value minus predicted value)?

Residual $=$ actual $-$ predicted $= 79 - 75 = 4$ .

Practice playeasy

A two-way table has rows Chess/Art and columns 7th/8th: Chess&7th=9, Art&7th=4, Art&8th=11. The Chess row total is 15. How many students are Chess&8th?

Chess row total minus the known Chess cell: $15-9=6$ .

Practice playeasy

A line of best fit relating hours of practice $x$ to free throws made $y$ is $y = 6x + 10$ . According to the line, each additional hour of practice adds about how many free throws?

The slope of $y = 6x + 10$ is $6$ : the predicted change in free throws for each extra hour of practice.

Practice playeasy

A two-way table has rows Bike/Scooter and columns Morning/Afternoon: Bike&Morning=11, Bike&Afternoon=7, Scooter&Morning=5. In all, 29 trips were recorded. How many trips are Scooter&Afternoon?

The three known cells sum to $11+7+5=23$ , so the missing cell is $29-23=6$ .

Practice playeasy

A trend line for the daily high temperature $x$ in degrees and cups of lemonade sold $y$ is $y = 2x - 60$ . For a predicted $100$ cups sold, what should the temperature be?