assignments
Assignments should be placed in the envelope outside my office by 4pm on the due date. Alternatively, you can upload them to the appropriate wikiacademia page.
due Fri Feb 2
Asignment 1
- Find an article that contains an example of a misleading graph. Explain why it is misleading and how it could more honestly be drawn. If you can't find such a graph, find an example of a good graph, explain why it is good, and explain how you would alter it to make it misleading (without technically lying).
- From Elementary Statistics, Chapter 1 review exercises: 7, 16, 25.
due Tue Feb 13
Assignment 2
- From Elementary Stats, Chapter 2 review (p. 87): 1, 2, 7, 8, 11.
due Tue Feb 20
Assignment 3
- From Elementary Stats:
- Section 3.3 (pages 129--132): Questions 6 ("by hand"), 16, 24, 42, and 48 (q48 is in the "Extending the Concepts" section).
- Section 3.4 Questions 12 and 16.
due Mon Mar 5
Assignment 4
- From Elementary Stats, Chapter 4 review (p. 229): 8, 12, 22, 32, 40
- From Elementary Stats, Chapter 4 data projects (p.234): 4. As well as finding the average, construct a histogram for each experiment.
- Poker Challenge. You can find a description of the various hands here
- Find the probability of being dealt each type of poker hand
- Find a "median" poker hand; that is, a hand that will beat half of all other hands. Similarly, find an upper quartile hand and a 90th percentile hand.
Note: This last one is a tricky problem. Do what you can with it. We got something wrong in our in-class calculation of pairs (can you see what?) Here's a calculation for the number of two-pair hands to give you the idea:
We must choose 2 ranks from 13 possibilities, and 2 suits from 4 for each of the pairs. There are then 44 remaining cards that do not turn the hand into a full house. So the number of two-pair hands is 13C2×4C2×4C2×44 = 123552
, giving a probability of 123552 / 2598960 = 0.0475
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due Thu Mar 8
Quiz 1
In-class; 30 minutes long; calculators allowed (but not Excel); covers chapters 1-4.
due Fri Mar 16
Assignment 5
- From Elementary Stats, Chapter 5 review (p. 279): 4, 10, 16, 20, 26
due Mon Apr 9
Assignment 6
- From Elementary Stats, Chapter 6
- 6.4, p.316: questions 14 and 22.
- Chap 6 Review: questions 2a, 2d, 2e, 2h, 4, 12.
due Mon Apr 16
Assignment 7
- From Elementary Stats, Chapter 7 review (p. 385): 2, 4, 7, 14
due Fri Apr 20
Assignment 8
- From Elementary Stats, Chapter 8:
- 8.2, p.404: questions 13a, 13f,
- 8.3, p.414: question 10,
- 8.4 p.427: question 14,
- Chap 8 Review p.455: questions 4, 10.
due Thu Apr 26
Quiz 2
due Mon Apr 30
Assignment 9
- From Elementary Stats,
- Chapter 9 review: 8, 9, 12
- Chapter 10 review: 2, 5
- Critical Thinking Challenge, p. 579.
due Fri May 4
Assignment 10
- From Elementary Stats
- Chapter 11 review: 2, 9
- Section 12.3: 9, 14
due Thu May 10
Quiz 3
This optional extra quiz will cover chapters 9-12. Only your best two quiz score will constribute to your final grade
due Mon May 14
Final Exam
A 24 hour open book exam. You have 24 hours from when you open the attachment to the email I'll send out lunchtime on Saturday. It must be completed and put in the envelope by 4pm on Monday.
due Tue May 15
Presentation and Project
The write-up, and all other work, must be in by 4pm on Tuesday. I will not be accepting any work after this time.
