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grade. Whereas gender and favorite school subject were qualitative, the other two (messaging
texting hours and class grade were quantitative). There were two questions Question 1
(Qualitative): How are males and females similar or different in their favorite subjects in
school?and
Question 2 (Quantitative): Do the number of texts sent differ between freshmen and seniors in
high school?
To answer the questions, I had to pick a random sample of 50 students (25 males and 25 females)
from a population of all USA high school students between the years 2010-2019.
GRAPHS
question 1
Favorite_School_Subject
count
female Art 3
English 5
History 2
Mathematics and statistics 5
Other 3
Science 7
male
count
school grade freshman 5.5
senior 171
Descriptive statistics
qualitative question
Favorite_School_Subject proportion
female Art 0.12
English 0.2
History 0.08
Mathematics and statistics 0.2
Other 0.12
Science 0.28
For the qualitative question: For the female students the mode is science. Out of the 25
randomly selected females 7 of them selected science as their favorite school,subject. The
proportion of those who chose science is 0.28 or 28%. For the male students the mode is
Mathematics and Statistics. Out of the 25 randomly selected females 8 of them selected is
Mathematics and Statistics as their favorite school,subject. The proportion of those who chose
science is 0.32 or 32%. we conclude that are males and females are similart in their favorite
subjects in school.
quantitative question
female sum mean standard dev
freshman 0 0 0
senior 748.2 5.75 48.904844
For the quantitative question: For the female students, there was no freshman female student
under the freshman. Therefore there was neither mean nor the standarddeviation for the
freshmen. However,for the men, the means for the freshman and senior students were 1.83 and
13.96 respectively. Their standard deviationss for the male freshman and senior students were
1.89 and 116.67 respectively. we conclude that the number of texts sent differ between