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Which of these does not apply to the word statistics'?
 a. Statistics are numbers measured for some purpose.
  b. Statistics is a collection of procedures for collecting and analyzing data.
  c. Statistics is a tool to help you make decisions when faced with uncertainty.
  d. All of the above apply to the word statistics'.

Q. 2

While you can learn a lot about the world just by observing it, you can learn even more by conducting a carefully controlled experiment involving statistics. Explain why.

Q. 3

Name one way that you have used statistics in your own life.

Q. 4

Statistics is about collecting information and using it to help you make a decision. Give an example of a decision that could be made using statistics.

Q. 5

Name one way in which the study of statistics is useful for every day life.

Q. 6

A local salon employs 4 stylists and the owner. The four stylists each make between 300 and 400 per week yet the average salary was reported to be 580. One could conclude all except for which?
  1.There must be an error in the calculation. The mean can't be 580.
  2.The owner makes approximately 1500 per week.
  3.Reporting the mean is advantageous to the owner who wishes to exaggerate what she pays her workers.
  4.The median would have been less misleading and more representative of what a worker might expect to be paid at the salon.
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Answer to #1

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Answer to #2

A CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE CAREFUL COMPARISONS TO FIND OUT IF DIFFERENCES REALLY DO EXIST, AND IF SO, TO ATTRIBUTE A CAUSE FOR THE DIFFERENCE.

Answer to #3

ANY REASONABLE ANSWER OK. EXAMPLES: TO DECIDE WHAT BRAND OF COMPUTER TO BUY, I CONSULTED STATISTICS FROM CONSUMER REPORTS; TO DECIDE WHICH APARTMENT TO RENT, I LOOKED AT THE RECENT CRIME STATISTICS FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Answer to #4

ANY REASONABLE ANSWER OK. EXAMPLES: SHOULD I TAKE AN UMBRELLA TO SCHOOL TOMORROW? IS THE BANK GOING TO BE BUSY TODAY? WHAT IS THE MOST POPULAR TV SHOW THIS WEEK?

Answer to #5

ANY REASONABLE ANSWER OK. EXAMPLES: WEATHER PREDICTION, POLLS/SURVEYS, TEST SCORES, ETC.

Answer to #6

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