Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Scribe Post- October 27- Period 1- Elizabeth C

The first thing we did in class was go over Homework 5. The big ideas for that were:


  • As the number of people polled goes up, the percent that was in favor also went up

  • The largest bars in the probability graph are the ones closest to the true proportion


Then we learned about the Central Limit Theorem:



Normal Distribution-

  • Based on mean and Standard Deviation
  • Represents probability of getting a result in an interval
  • 68% of results fall within 1 deviation
  • 95% will fall within 2 deviations

Inflection Point: The point where the curve switches from Concave up to Concave down.



Continuous Probability Distribution: When every point on the graph has a value(Like a bell curve)

Discrete Probability Distribution: When nothing happens between points (like a bar graph)

After this discussion, we did Deviations of Swinging while Mr. Marchetti checked the rest of the homework (Homework 12, 1, 2, 3 and the rational functions worksheet 380)

After that we whipped out the TI-nspires and did Graphing Distributions

Homework:

  1. Revisions Due Thursday
  2. Homework 6 and 7

Next Scribe: Kimmy

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