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Worksheet 2.5 HW 11 - Descriptive Stat Practice

This document provides 7 problems for a descriptive statistics worksheet. The problems cover topics like shape of distributions based on exam difficulty, effect of adding an outlier on a sample mean, 5-number summaries and identifying outliers using a stemplot, properties of averages, sample proportions and converting to numerical codes, transforming sample distributions using linear functions, and calculating variance when values are transformed. Students are asked to show work and write explanations for partial credit.

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Worksheet 2.5 HW 11 - Descriptive Stat Practice

This document provides 7 problems for a descriptive statistics worksheet. The problems cover topics like shape of distributions based on exam difficulty, effect of adding an outlier on a sample mean, 5-number summaries and identifying outliers using a stemplot, properties of averages, sample proportions and converting to numerical codes, transforming sample distributions using linear functions, and calculating variance when values are transformed. Students are asked to show work and write explanations for partial credit.

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AP STATISTICS Name: ______________________________________________ Per: _____

Descriptive Statistics Worksheet (HW #11)

Work these problems out on separate paper. Show all work, and make sure any written explanations are in context!

1. An exam is given to students in an introductory statistics course. What is likely to be true of the shape of the
histogram of scores if
a) the exam is quite easy?
b) the exam is quite difficult?
c) half the students in the class have had calculus, the other half have had no prior college math courses, and the
exam emphasizes mathematical manipulation?

2. Suppose a sample mean for n = 13 observations was x = 199.8 (actually 199.7692), and the 14th observation,
somewhat of an outlier, was 159. What is the value of x for the new sample?

3. The weights of 30 male college students is displayed in the stemplot to the right.
a) Find the 5-number summary for this group of males’ weights.
b) Determine if there are any outliers in this distribution of weights.
c) Construct a boxplot for this data.
d) Do you expect the mean to be greater or less than the median? Explain.
e) By how much could the largest weight be increased without affecting the value of the
sample median?
f) By how much could the largest weight be decreased without affecting the value of the
sample median?

4. Consider the following statement: More than 65% of the residents of Los Angeles earn less than the average wage
for that city. Could this statement be correct? If so, how? If not, why not?

5. Suppose ten patients with meningitis received treatment with large doses of penicillin. Three days later, temperatures
were recorded, and the treatment was considered successful if there had been a reduction in a patient’s temperature.
Denoting success by S and failure by F, the ten observations are
S S F S S S F F S S

a) What is the value of the sample proportion of successes?


b) Replace each S with 1 and each F with 0. Then calculate x for this numerically coded sample. How does x
compare to the sample proportion, p̂ ?
c) Suppose it is decided to include 15 more patients in the study.
How many of these would have to be S’s to give p̂ = 0.80 for the entire sample of 25 patients?

6. A sample distribution with x = 20 and s = 3 is to be transformed by the linear function y = 2x + 7. What will be the
mean and standard deviation of the transformed data?

7. Each value in a sample has been transformed by multiplying by 6 and then adding 20.
If the original sample had a standard deviation of 9, what is the variance of the transformed sample?
(Note: Variance equals standard deviation squared)

Complete pg 91 # 10 (a only), and pg 131 #11, 12, 21

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