Mat 152 Module 2 Project

We will use the sample data collected at the beginning of the term from statistics students at FTCC.

Please be advised that you may use your book and notes on this project, but you may not collaborate
with anyone. Getting help on a Project from any person is a violation of the Student Code of
Conduct.

Summarizing Data
Use the rounding rules from the textbook. Round one place past the original data.

I. Perform the following operations on the weight in pounds of a sample of FTCC Mat 152
students.
A. Make an expanded frequency table using the guidelines in our book. Use six classes
and include the frequency distribution, relative frequency, cumulative frequency,
midpoints, and class boundaries.
B. Use the table in Part A to construct a:
1. Ogive
2. Frequency histogram. State any skewedness the graph might display.

Note: You can use software (Excel, online software, etc.) or draw them by hand
using graph paper. I have posted some web links in Blackboard under Resources
in LiveBinders.

C. Use your calculator or software to calculate the following descriptive statistics.

1. Mean
2. Standard Deviation
3. First Quartile
4. Median
5. Third Quartile
D. Use the values from Part C to
1. Construct an IQR boxplot.
2. Determine which data values, if any, are outliers. Justify your answers. See page
104 in textbook.
E. Which measure of “Average” do you feel best describes your data set? Why?
II. Perform the following operations on the number of pets owned by a sample of FTCC Mat
152 students.
A. Make a frequency table number of pets owned by FTCC Mat 152 students. List each
value separately.
B. Use the table in Part A to construct a Frequency histogram. State any skewedness the
graph might display.

Note: You can use software (Excel, online software, etc.) or draw them by hand using
graph paper. I have posted some web links in Blackboard under Resources.

C. Use your calculator or software to calculate the following descriptive statistics.

1. Mean
2. Standard Deviation
3. First Quartile
4. Median
5. Third Quartile
 D. Use the values from Part C to
1. Construct an IQR boxplot.
2. Determine which data values, if any, are outliers. Justify your answers. See page
104 in textbook.
E. Which measure of “Average” do you feel best describes your data set? Why?

Probability Distributions
Write each probability as fractions in simplest form or round to the nearest thousandth.

III. Discrete Probability Distribution – Use the data set for number of pets.
A. Construct the discrete probability distribution from your data set.
B. Does your discrete probability distribution fulfill the two conditions it must satisfy?
Explain.
C. Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the distribution in part A above.
Round to the nearest tenth.
D. Find the following probabilities.
1. Using the probability distribution in part A, find the probability of randomly
choosing a household that does not have a pet.
2. Using the probability distribution in part A, find the probability of randomly
choosing a household that has more than 2 pets.
IV. Binomial Distribution – Use the data set for the Registered Voters
A. Find the probability that a randomly selected Statistics student is a registered voter.
B. Construct and graph the binomial distribution for the number of voters when 10 students
are selected.
C. Find the mean, variance and standard deviation of this binomial distribution. Round to
nearest tenth.
D. If 10 Statistics students are selected at random, what is the probability that all of them
are registered voters?
E. If 10 Statistics students are selected at random, what is the probability that less than 5
of them are registered voters?
F. If 10 Statistics students are selected at random, what is the probability that at least 8 of
them are registered voters?

Turn this into the Assignment Manager in Blackboard. You can turn this in as a .doc file or .pdf file. If
you do not have Microsoft Office, you can use Open Office, Sky Drive or Google docs. However, do
not send me a link to the document. Download it, save it on your computer (as a .doc), and up load it
into Blackboard.

**Remember, if you use a site to make a graph, you should reference it. Use APA format.

See Answer sheet for point values.

Module 2 Project Answer Sheet Name ______________________________________
I. Perform the following operations on the weights of MAT 152 students.

A. Construct an expanded frequency table: (10 pts)

Classes Frequency Cum. Freq. Rel. Freq. Midpoints Boundaries

100-124 7 7 13 112 99.5-124.5
125-149 14 21 25.9 137 124.5-149.5
150-174 10 31 18.5 162 149.5-174.5
175-199 10 41 18.5 187 174.5-199.5
200-224 8 49 14.8 212 199.5-224.5
225-249 5 54 9.3 237 224.5-249.5

B. Use the table in Part A to construct a:

1. Ogive (3 pts)

OGive
120.00%
100.00% 100.00%
100.00% 90.74%
75.93%
80.00%
Frequency

57.41%
60.00% Cumulative %
38.89%
40.00%
12.96%
20.00%

0.00%
124 149 174 199 224 249 More
Bin
 2. Histogram (3 pts)

Histogram
14

14
12 10 10

10 8
7
8
5
6
4
2
0
1

100-124 125-149 150-174 175-199 200-224 225-249

Shape of Graph: _______________Skewed right__________ (1 pts)

C. Use your calculator to find the following:

1. Mean = ________168.01_________ (2 pts)

2. Standard Deviation = ______38.53_____________ (2 pts)

3. First Quartile = _________136.11__________ (2 pts)

4. Median = _____164.5______________ (2 pts)

5. Third Quartile = ____________198.25_______ (2 pts)

D. Use the values from Part C to

1. Construct a box-n-whisker plot (3 pts)

 2. Outliers: _______None________ (1 pt)

Justification ________all the values are within Q1-1.5IQR TO Q3+1.5IQR (1 pt)

E. Best measure of center: __________Mean__________ (1 pt)

Why? ______There are no outliers so no distortion for mean, (1 pt)

II. Perform the following operations on the number of pets owned by MAT 152 students.

A. Construct a frequency table of the number of pets that are owned. (3 pts)

No. of pets Frequency

0 17
1 17
2 5
3 6
4 3
No. of pets Frequency
5 3
6 2
7 0
8 0
9 0
10 1
 B. Construct a frequency histogram of the number of pets that are owned. (3 pts)

Histogram
18 17 17
16

14

12

10
Frequency

Frequency
8
6
6 5
4 3 3
2
2 1
0 0 0
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 or more
Bin

Shape of Graph: ______skewed right_________________ (1 pts)

C. Use your calculator:

1. Mean = __________1.74_________ (2 pts)

2. Standard Deviation = _________2.05__________ (2 pts)

3. First Quartile = ____________0_______ (2 pts)

4. Median = __________1_________ (2 pts)

5. Third Quartile = _________3__________ (2 pts)

D. Use the values from Part C to

1. Construct a box-n-whisker plot (3 pts)

 2. Outliers: ______10____ (1 pt)

Justification _______Liese beyond Q3+1.5IQR (1 pt)

E. Best measure of center: _____________Median________________ (1 pt)

Why? since data is highly skewed and there exist a high value outlier (1 pt)

III. Discrete Probability

A. Use the frequency table in part II to construct a probability distribution. (3 pts)

X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Frequency 17 17 5 6 3 3 2 0 0 0 1

P(X) 0.314 0.314 0.092 0.111 0.055 0.055 0.037 0 0 0 0.018

 (3 pts)

B. ________________________Question NOT

visible_________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________ (2 pts)

C. Mean = _____1.746______ (2 pts), variance = ____4.101_________ (2 pts),

standard deviation = _______2.025_____ (2 pts)

D. Use the probability distribution to find the following probabilities.

1. __________________________________________ (2 pts)

2. __________________________________________ (2 pts)

IV. Binomial probability

A. __________________________________________ (2 pts)

B. Construct binomial probability distribution (4 pts)

X P(X)
0      
1      
2      
3      
4      
5      
6      
 X P(X)
7      
8      
9      
10      

Draw a histogram (3 pts)

C. Mean = ____________ (2 pts), Variance = _____________ (2 pts)

Standard deviation = ____________ (2 pts)

D. ______________________________________________________________ (3 pts)

E. _______________________________________________________________ (3 pts)

F. _______________________________________________________________ (3 pts)