Summarizing data with tables, graphs, and numbers

Week 1: January 13 through 17

MATH 214 ~ Probability and Statistics for Business Majors ~ Spring 2003

Class meeting schedule and topics

Monday, January 13 ~	Bar graphs and histograms
Wednesday, January 15 ~	Sample means and sample medians
Friday, January 17 ~	Boxplots
Monday, January 20 ~	Standard deviations
Wednesday, January 22 ~	More about standard deviations

Homework Assignments

1. Due Wednesday, January 15

   Required work

   • Read "Students learn how to 'ace college'"
   • Read about bar graphs in Section 2.1 on pages 28 through 34
   • Read about stemplots and histograms in Section 2.2 on pages 38 through 45
   • Read about summation notation in Section 2.3 on pages 52 and 53
   • Exercise 2.4 on page 35

   Optional work

   • Exercises 2.6, 2.8, and 2.10 on pages 35 and 36

2. Due Friday, January 17

   Required work

   • Read about sample means and sample medians in Section 2.4 on pages 54 through 61
   • Use Excel to construct a properly labelled histogram for the gasoline prices in the table accompanying Exercise 2.46 on page 65

   Optional work

   • Exercises 2.19 and 2.25 on pages 48 through 52

3. Due Monday, January 20

   Required work

   • Read about five-number summaries and boxplots in Section 2.8 on pages 86 through 93
   • Use your TI-83 to construct a histogram for the gasoline prices in the table accompanying Exercise 2.46 on page 65. Sketch the histogram on paper, and label it appropriately.
   • Exercise 2.46 on page 65

   Optional work

   • Exercises 2.30 and 2.40 on pages 61 and 63

4. Due Wednesday, January 22

   Required work

   • Read about standard deviations in Sections 2.5 and 2.6 on pages 65 through 76
   • Exercise 2.96 on pages 95 and 96

   Optional work

   • Exercises 2.91 and 2.95 on pages 94 and 95