Intro to College Math

2/26/2018

Title of lesson: Chapter 2 Review

Your Name: Katrina Dedvukaj

Length of lesson: 60 minutes

Context of Lesson: The students have been learning about how to represent data in this chapter and
how to describe it using numbers. Today is the first day of review.

Overview: I will start the hour by doing an activity with the students to review median and standard
deviation. Then I will give the students their review that they can work on for the rest of the hour.

Objective: Explain and solve for mean and standard deviation given a data set.

Students will be able to: Solve for mean and standard deviation.

Anticipated student conceptions or challenges to understanding: I anticipate that students will need
help reviewing standard deviation so I have an activity prepared.

Materials/Evidence/Sources:

 Practice Test

Instructional Sequence:

1. (10 minutes) Go over the homework from Friday.

2. (20 minutes) To review standard deviation I will ask students who have Snapchat to share what
their highest streak is (it’s how many days in a row you’ve staying in contact with someone on
the app). Once I’ve collected the data from the students we will go over how to find the mean
and standard deviation.
3. (20 minutes) The students need to work on the Practice Test review. They will receive a key
tomorrow.

Assessment: Chapter 2 Test is 2/28

Attach all handouts, texts, images, lecture notes, etc.

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Chapter 2 Test
1.) Fifty percent of the observations will be at or above the
(a) maximum (b) mean (c) median (d) third quartile (e) first quartile

2. An outlier will usually have a large effect on the

(a) first quartile (b) mean (c) third quartile (d) median (e) sample size

3. For a distribution that is skewed to the right, usually

(a) the mean will be larger than the median
(b) the median will be larger than the mean
(c) the first quartile will be larger than the third quartile
(d) the standard deviation will be negative
(e) the minimum will be larger than the maximum

4. You are giving a talk about the decay of the American family. You want to show by a graph
how the number of divorces has increased between 1970 and 2000. What type of graph should
you draw?
(a) A bar graph.
(b) A boxplot.
(c) A histogram.
(d) A line graph.
(e) A pie chart.

5.) The following is a stemplot of 12 exam scores. What is the median?

Key 6 0 = 60

(a) 84 (b) 85 (c) 86 (d) 88 (e) 90

6.) The mean and the median of a distribution are measures of

(a) the number of observations.
(b) variability or spread.
(c) center.
(d) both (b) and (c)
(e) none of these.
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7.) The box in a boxplot marks

(a) the full range covered by the data
(b) the range covered by the middle half of the data
(c) the range covered by the middle three-quarters of the data
(d) the span one standard deviation on each side of the mean
(e) the span two standard deviations on each side of the mean
The bar graph below shows the highest level of education attained by 120 randomly selected
individuals (at least 25 years old) from the 2000 U.S. Census. The next two questions are
based on this graph.

8. The percentage of individuals in this sample who did

not attend school beyond grade 8 is:

(a) 6.5%

(b) 10.8%

(c) 13%

(d) 87%

(e) 89.2%

9. Which one of the following statements about this sample of 120 people is false?
(a) The majority of people who started college attended for at least 4 years.
(b) About 50% of the people attended college for at least one year.
(c) Most of the people who did not go to college finished 12th grade.
(d) Less that one-quarter of the people did not reach 12th grade.
(e) The majority of people who did not finish 12th grade made it through 10th grade.

10.) Identify the five-number summary for the following data set:

1 4 7 11 11 12 14 15 16 16 17 17 25 28

(________ , ________ , ________ , ________ , ________ )

11. Create a box plot.

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12. Are there any outliers in the data set? (show your work!)

13. If 10 was added to each data value…

(a) Neither the mean nor the standard deviation would change.
(b) The mean would increase by10, but the standard deviation would not change.
(c) The mean would not change, but the standard deviation would be increased by 10.
(d) Both the mean and the standard deviation would be increased by 10.
14. Calculate the standard deviation of the data in #10 and round to the nearest tenth if
necessary.
x xx (x  x)2

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15.) The display below is from a help wanted advertisement for a chemical manufacturing plant.
Name at least two features of the graph make it a poor display of the data.
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1._________________________________________________________

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2._________________________________________________________

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16.) Below is the percentage by state of 2007 college and university students who are enrolled in
public institutions
96 86 80 78 62 81 77 81 76 73 69 76 90
78
70 83 46 80 66 91 76 58 81 91 57 81 88
57
44 79 67 55

For example, 44% of Rhode Island high school graduates attend public institutions of higher
education, whereas in Alaska, 96% attend public college and universities. Make a histogram of these
data. Class widths should be 10.
Classes Counts

17. Describe the shape of the distribution in #16. _______________________

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18. Based on the shape of this distribution, what numerical measures would best describe it?
(a) the five-number summary.
(b) the mean and standard deviation.
(c) the mean and the quartiles.
(d) the mean and the range.
(e) the median and the standard deviation.

19. Below is the age at death of 36 presidents. Make a stemplot of the data.
64 67 73 63 63 71 64 93 74 72 85 66 90
79 56

46 65 93 60 83 56 60 78 49 78 53 58 90
77 57

80 70 88 71 67 81

20. Describe the distribution of the data. Remember there are 4 parts to this.
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Extra Credit: Use the table above.

Of all the United States Nobel Prizes in these three fields, Physics prizes accounted for what
percent?