Stat 1000: Tips for Assignment 1 (includes a copy of the assignment)

Published: Sun, 09/25/16

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Tips for Assignment 1
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Study Lesson 1 (Skills Review), Lesson 2 (Limits), Lesson 3 (Continuity), and Lesson 4 (Definition of Derivative) from my Intro Calculus book to prepare for this assignment.

Do note that my free sample above does include both Lessons 1 and 2 in my book and audio lectures.
Questions 1 to 6
This is a standard question about classifying variables, similar to my question 1 in Lesson 1.

There are also more examples in the Practice Questions they supplied for Unit 1.
Question 7
Remember, if you find the total of the second column (the frequency or count column) in a frequency table, that will tell you n, the sample size.
Question 8
This is an example of the 1.5 IQR Rule.
Question 9
Be clear what this question is asking. It is not asking for the limits you would compute from your 1.5 IQR Rule. It is asking where the whiskers will be drawn. The whiskers in a modified or outlier boxplot are drawn to the lowest and highest data scores that are NOT outliers.
Question 10
A good concept question about standard deviation. Which data set do you think would have the lowest/highest standard deviation? Use the Stat Mode on your calculator to confirm that the sample mean is 10 and compute the standard deviation in each case and see if you were right.
Question 11
This is an example of weighted mean. Unfortunately, I do not show examples of this in my book.  However, their Unit 1 Practice Questions 18-24 illustrate the weighted mean formula in action. This particular question has thrown in a twist because it is making you work backwards.
  1. Multiply the midterm score by its weight (.35) and the assignment score by its weight (.15). You now know the total mark the student has earned so far.
  2. So, what weighted mark must the student get on the final to bring their total up to 70 (a B)?
  3. Remember, that final is worth 50%, the weighted mark needed is like getting a mark out of 50 on the exam.