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How are your favorite classes related?

Is your favorite elective class associated with your favorite core class? Collect class
data to see if there is a relationship.

1. Which of the following is your favorite elective class? You must choose only one
and mark your choice on the board.

Art Music Physical Foreign Technology

Education Language

6 9 7 4 4
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2. Identify the individuals and variable? students , favorite elective
3. Is the variable categorical or quantitative?
categorical .

4. Go to stapplet.com to enter the class data. Make a bar graph and a pie chart.
Sketch them below.

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5. Sometimes it is helpful to investigate more than one variable. Come to the board
and put a tally mark where you belong.
Find each of the following:
Core Class
% of all students who chose P.E.:

rnefaaff medfrequency
Math English
Art i 4 7/30=23.31 .
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Music 5 4
% of all students who chose Math and
Elective P.E. 4 3 chose Art: relative
Joint
frequency
.

Foreign Lang. ' 3

2/30=6.71 .
←
Tech. 4 O
% of the students who prefer math that

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chose Tech.

4/16=251 .
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6. How many variables does the table have? Are the variables categorical or
quantitative?
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7. Which variable would best explain or predict the other variable?

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8. Go to stapplet.com and enter the data. Make a side-by-side bar graph and a
segmented bar graph. Sketch them below. Segmented Bar key
side-by-side pot graph
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bar graph
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math English
9. How do the bars in the side-by-side-bar graph relate to the bars in the
segmented bar graph? from the
If stacked all the bars for math
you slack would look
side-by-side bar graph ,
the
bar
like the math bar in the
segmented
graph .

10. Is there an association between favorite core subject and favorite elective? If so,
describe it.

yes ,
if prefer math your more likely
youtech
to choose If.
choose
you English ,

yur are more

likely to choose art
.

11. If there was not an association between favorite core subject and favorite
elective, what would the graphs look like? Explain.

The bars would look the same

for both math and

English .
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Lesson 1.1 – Analyzing Categorical Data

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frequencies founts) a( vertical axis .

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relative frequencies %) should start at

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in barographs , pie -

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charts, side-by-side bar pictograph joint rel freq
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conditional felfreq A/B

& segmented
:

graphs btw 2 variables

bar graphs .

Check Your Understanding:

* Association
means
knowing one affects Hoffner .

1. The following graph was displayed by a

national news organization. Explain why

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the graph may be misleading, and

sketch a corrected version of the graph.
The vertical axisdoesn't
start at 0 so the differences
is exaggerated
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2. A real estate agent is collecting data on the number of houses built in his town’s
three neighborhoods during three different decades. The table below gives
information. *.
1960s 1970s 1980s
Shady Lane 40 30 10 80

Oakcrest 60 15 5 80

Pinewood Estates 0 45 15 60
Total 100 90 30 220
a. What proportion of the houses shown were built in Pinewood Estates?

60/20=0.27
b. Find the distribution of Decade Built for the houses in this town using relative
frequencies. 60 's

First .
7%2--40.91 .
Fw= 13.61 .

c. What percent of homes were built in Oakcrest and in the 1960s?

6%20--27.31 .