Homework 10/3/10

 

Part 1: complete project design including surveys or experiments (most of the work for this should be completed in class, but should be turned in for hw on Monday)

 

Part 2: measures of central tendency.  For the following data, find mean, median, mode and range.  For extra credit, also find the standard deviation.

****Extra addition**** Part 3: Complete MLA citations for the two articles you researched (easybib.com)

 

 

Data set 1: 0-60 acceleration times of various cars: in seconds

7.8            9.6            8.2            10.3            4.9            5.8            11.3            9.1            9.4            8.4            6.3            6.1

5.3            7.4            12.3            5.1            7.9

 

 

Data Set 2: Heights of IACS freshmen in inches

59             62             77             71             68             67             58             66             62             67            72            60

63            69            65            60            65            67            73            67            68            65            64            68

 

 

 

Data set 3: Cost of different net books in dollars

299            320            379            399            315            459            349            339

 

 

Data Set 4: Sophomores GPA

3.0            3.2            2.1            4.2            3.5            2.6            1.8            2.0            3.2            3.8            3.9

 

 

Data Set 5: Seniors shoe sizes

11            8            4            7            10            13            12            9            7            10.5            9.5            7.5

6            6.5            9            5