Wednesday, October 29, 2008

(Wednesday) October 29

Today:
Go over homework 6 & 7
More about normal curves

Next Class:
Finish discussing Classwork

Homework:
Quiz next Wednesday
Revisions due Thursday

Homework 6 (393) Means and More in Middletown
1) a) Only 2.5% of the houses cost over $950
b) 68% cost between $500-800
c) 13.5% cost between $350-500
2) 2.5%
3) 84%

Homework 7 (396) Gifts Aren't Always Free
1) The main idea that we are trying to explain to Craig is if the standard deviation was larger the deviation would be broader where as if it was smaller the deviation would be more concise.
2) $29-$24.50 is 68%

Classwork (397) Normal Areas
1) .38
2) .86

Class was the typical short Wednesday. We didn't actually accomplish much, but there was a pretty rad conversation about carrots going on at the next table. For the next class we'll finish where we left off in the Classwork on page 397.

Next Scribe:
Cody Ullrich (for Thursday October 30th)

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