Kyle White W

CEE 2814 Homework #1

9/6/2011

Bonica, Jeffry

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1-A Given: Per Capita Elementary School Spending, by State 1. Calculate the mean, median, and mode of the data a. Mean = (A5:A55)/50 = 5765.901961 b. Median = MEDIAN(A5:A55) = 5630 c. Mode = no mode, all numbers appear only once 2. Calculate Q1, Q2, Q3 a. Q1 = QUARTILE(A5:A55, 1) = 4827.5 b. Q2 = QUARTILE(A5:A55,2) = 5630 c. Q3 = QUARTILE(A5:A55,3) = 6431.5 3. Create a histogram with at least 5 classes (bins)

Bin 3660 4591.428571 5522.857143 6454.285714 7385.714286 8317.142857 9248.571429 More

Frequency 1 7 15 14 8 0 3 2

4. Create a box and whisker plot by hand on green engineering paper See Figure 1-A

Kyle White W

CEE 2814 Homework #1

9/6/2011

Bonica, Jeffry

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1-B Given: The exam results to the left were taken in the fall of 2006 and you would like to use them to predict the results in the fall of 2010. Part 1 1. For the given exam results find: a. Mean = AVERAGE(A5:A97) = 55 b. Median = MEDIAN(A5:A97) = 54 c. Mode = MODE.MULT(A5:A97) = 53 d. Sample Standard Deviation = STDEV.S(A5:A97) = 8.472972 e. Histogram
Bin 33 38 43 48 53 58 63 68 73 More Frequency 1 2 4 10 26 17 21 7 4 1

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Direction of skew if any, justify your answer The skew is slightly to the right because the mean (55) is greater than the median (54). g. Q3 = QUARTILE(A5:A97,3) = 61 Part 2 a. You would expect the top 25% of the students would have a score of ______ or greater = 61 b. Compare your answer to a. with Q3 above and explain any difference = The answer is the same, no difference. c. What percent of the students would you expect to receive a score between 70 and 50?

Kyle White W

CEE 2814 Homework #1

9/6/2011

Bonica, Jeffry

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= 68.40% (See Green Sheet 1-B Part 2-C) d. What percent of the students would you expect to have a score that is less than 60? = 72.24% (See Green Sheet 1-B Part 2-D)