Graded Worksheet B1

Name: Jacob Dziubek________________

This needs to be completed and emailed to burelle@hartford.edu by the due date

announced in Course Compass.
The table shows data for sex and opinion about the legalization of marijuana, for a sample of respondents in
the General Social Survey.

1.

Male
Female

Legalize
118
116

Totals

234

Dont Legalize
295
475
770

Totals
413
591
1004

Calculate these proportions, writing the answers in a form similar to 25.64%

a. What proportion of the males favors legalization?
.2421%
b.

What proportion are males favoring legalization?

50.42%

2.

Find these probabilities, writing the answers in a form similar to 0.2564.

a. Select a person at random from the whole group, find the probability they are female and
dont favor legalization.
.4731
b.

Select a female at random, find the probability they dont favor legalization.
.8037

3.

4.

Use the data to build a contingency table of percentages using sex as the explanatory variable. (That
is, for males calculate the percentages that do and do not favor legalization, then do the same for
females.) See Lesson 3 pages 6-8 for an example.
Male

Legalize
28.57%

Female

19.62%

Dont Legalize
71.43%
80.38%

Give side-by-side bar charts to graphically describe the data.

(On next page)

Totals
100%
100%

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90
80
70
60
50

Legalize

40

Dont Legalize

30
20
10
0
Male

5.

Female

Does there seem to be an association between sex and opinion about legalization of marijuana?
(YES/ NO).

No

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B2 Worsheet

Here are the M-SAT scores and the college grade point average at the end of the freshman year of
college for 10 different students.
Student
SAT scores
College GPA

1
450
2.3

2
480
2.8

3
420
2.4

4
580
3.8

5
490
2.1

6
560
3.5

7
600
3.8

8
390
1.8

9
550
3.4

10
440
2.5

An evaluator is interested in seeing whether or not it is possible to predict a college GPA based
on a M-SAT scores.
1. Which variable should be the response variable? College GPA

College GPA

2. Construct a well-labeled scatterplot of this data. Use a reasonable scale.

150

300
SAT Scores

450

600

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3. Find the correlation coefficient. R = 0.9314706871

4. Find the equation of the regression line, and graph the regression line on your scatterplot.
Y=.0093929174X+-1.818887015
5. Predict a students college GPA if his/her M-SAT score is 500. GPA = 2.8776
6. Interpret slope in context.

As a students (circle one: M-SAT score / college GPA) (

circle one: increases / decreases ) by ___100________, his/ her (circle one: M-SAT score/
college GPA) (circle one: increases / decreases ) by ____0.9393______________.

Gradded Worksheet B3

1. At a certain hospital the weights of babies is a mound-shaped distribution with a mean of

110 oz. and a standard deviation of 15 oz. Using the empirical rule, calculate the following
probabilities:
a. P(95 < weight < 125)
.68

b. P(weight > 125)

0.15865525
c. P(weight < 80)
0.02275013
2. See exercise 1. Calculate the z-scores for the following weights, rounding to the nearest
hundredth:
a. 133 oz.
Z=1.53

b. 78 oz.

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Z= -2.13
3. See exercise 1. Calculate the weights for the following z-scores, rounding to the nearest
ounce:
a. z = 1.56

133.4 oz
b. z = 2.31.
75.3 oz

B4 Worksheet

The length of times that light bulbs manufactured by the Acme Corporation last is
normally distributed with mean 300 days and standard deviation of 50 days.
1. What is the probability that an Acme light bulb will last less than 365 days? Do
these steps.
a. Sketch a suitable normal curve, shading the area corresponding to the question.
0.90

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b. Calculate the z-score that corresponds to 365 days. Write the answer two ways:
rounded to two places, and rounded to 4 places.
1.3 z=(365-300)/50 = 1.3

c. Use the two-place z score and Table A to answer the question.

d. Use the four-place z score and the normal calculator in StatCrunch to answer
the question.

2. What proportion of the bulbs last more than 160 days?

.99

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3. What proportion last between 160 days and 365 days?

0.90064439

4. Verbal SAT scores for a particular college have a mean of 501 and a standard
deviation of 111.
a.Sam refuses to tell you his SAT score, but he will tell you that he outscored 39.36%
of the people at the college. What was Sams SAT score? Solve by following
these steps.
i. John says he can find Sams z score by looking in Table A. So he
looks for a z score that would give a proportion of 0.3936. (See the
figure.) What z score gives this proportion?

z= about -.35
ii. Betty says that now we know the z score, we can calculate the SAT
score. Do the necessary calculation.
His SAT Score was about 462

b. Repeat exercise 4a., but for Sue. Sue reports that her SAT was in the 76th
percentile, which means she scored better than 76% of the people.
a. Find the z score (you may not find 0.7600 in the table so find the closest
number you can)

Z=.7

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b. Use the z score to calculate the SAT.

Her SAT score is 579
c. If only 8% of the students scored better than Mary, what was Marys score?
Marys score was 656