College of Arts and Sciences Education

Second Examination in GE 4
Mathematics in the Modern World

Answer the following questions completely. Show all your solutions.

ABSOLUTELY NO ERASURES. (5 points each)

1. The Brunswick Research Organization surveyed 50 randomly selected

individuals and asked them the primary way they received the daily news.
Their choices were via newspaper (N), television (T), radio (R), or Internet (I).
Construct a graph(any) for the data and interpret the results.

2. The net worth (in billions of dollars) of a sample of the richest people in the
United States is shown. Find the mean, median, and mode for the data

3. Starting teachers’ salaries (in equivalent U.S. dollars) for upper secondary
education in selected countries are listed below. Which set of data is more
variable? (The U.S. average starting salary at this time was $29,641.)

4. Which has a better relative position: a score of 75 on a statistics test with a

mean of 60 and a standard deviation of 10 or a score of 36 on an accounting
test with a mean of 30 and a variance of 16?Justify your answer.
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Second Examination in GE 4
Mathematics in the Modern World
5. The data represent the values in billions of dollars of the damage of 10
hurricanes.

a. What is the percentile rank of 20.3?

b. What value corresponds to the 40th percentile?

6. The average height of a certain age group of people is 53 inches. The standard
deviation is 4 inches. If the variable is normally distributed, find the
probability that a selected individual’s height will be
a. Greater than 59 inches
b. Less than 45 inches

7. An educator wants to see how the number of absences for a student in her
class affects the student’s final grade. The data obtained from a sample are
shown.

Do a complete regression analysis by performing these steps.

a. Draw a scatter plot.
b. Compute the correlation coefficient.
c.
d. Determine the regression line equation.
e. Interpret the results.

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