Warm-Up Exercises EXAMPLE 1 Baseball The number of home runs hit by the 20 baseball players with the best single- season batting averages in Major League Baseball since 1900 are listed below. 8, 7, 7, 19, 37, 39, 18, 42, 23, 4, 32, 14, 21, 3, What are some of the ways we can display this information?
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Warm-Up ExercisesEXAMPLE 1
Baseball
The number of home runs hit by the 20 baseball players with the best single-season batting averages in Major League Baseball since 1900 are listed below.
What are some of the ways we can display this information?
Warm-Up ExercisesEXAMPLE 1 Make a stem-and-leaf plot
Baseball
The number of home runs hit by the 20 baseball players with the best single-season batting averages in Major League Baseball since 1900 are listed below. Make a stem-and-leaf plot of the data.
Warm-Up ExercisesEXAMPLE 2 Interpret a stem-and-leaf plot
The back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot shows the ages of members of the U.S men’s and women’s 2004 Olympic gymnastics teams. Compare the ages of the gymnasts on the two teams.
GYMNASTICS
Warm-Up ExercisesEXAMPLE 2 Interpret a stem-and-leaf plot
SOLUTION
Consider the distribution of the data. The interval for 10–19 years old contains more than half of the female gymnasts. The interval for 20–29 years old contains more than half of the male gymnasts. The clustering of the data shows that the men’s team was generally older than the women’s team.
Warm-Up ExercisesEXAMPLE 3 Make a histogram
SANDWICH PRICES
The prices (in dollars) of sandwiches at a restaurant are listed below. Make a histogram of the data.
The median is the mean of the two middle values, 1191 and 1200, or 1195.5.
The mode is 1000.
Warm-Up ExercisesEXAMPLE 1 Generate the measures of central tendency using technology
SOLUTION
x = STAT….EDIT…LIST1…HOME…STAT…CALC…#1…ENTER
= 1344
The median is in the list, scroll down and find the med 1195.5.
To get the mode, arrange the data and look back at the list. STAT… #2… ENTER… L1.. Enter… Look At List.. The mode is 1000.
Is there a way to generate the information on the graphing calculator?
Warm-Up ExercisesEXAMPLE 1 Compare measures of central tendency
ANSWER
The median best represents the data. The mode is significantly less than most of the data, and the mean is significantly greater than most of the data.
Warm-Up ExercisesEXAMPLE 2 Compare measures of dispersion
The top 10 finishing times (in seconds) for runners in two men’s races are given. The times in a 100 meter dash are in set A, and the times in a 200 meter dash are in set B. For each set find: (a) the range and (b) the mean absolute deviation.
The mean of set A is 11.07, so the mean absolute deviation is:
Part b:
Warm-Up ExercisesDaily Homework Quiz
The list shows the number of e-mails Brennan sent in 8 days. Find the mean, median, and mode(s) of the data. Which measure of central tendency best represents the data?45, 25, 38, 42, 51, 52, 24, 51
1.
ANSWER Mean: 41, Median: 43.5, Mode: 51; the median best represents the data since the mean is toward the lower end of the data and the mode is toward the upper end.
Warm-Up ExercisesDaily Homework Quiz
2.
Find the range and mean absolute deviation of the data. Round to the nearest hundredth, if necessary.38, 43, 56, 84, 98, 99, 102, 103