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Name: Descriptive Statistics: Homework
ID: m16801
Language: English (en)
Summary: Descriptive Statistics: Homework is part of the collection col10555 written by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean and provides homework questions related to lessons about descriptive statistics.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: box, descriptive, deviation, elementary statistics, exercise, frequency, histogram, homework, mean, median, mode, percentile, plot, population, problem, quartile, relative, sample, standard, statistics
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu)
Copyright Holders: Maxfield Foundation (cnx@cnx.org)
Maintainers: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu), Connexions (cnx@cnx.org)
Latest version: 1.25 (history)
First publication date: May 21, 2008 3:08 pm -0500
Last revision to module: Jul 3, 2012 12:57 pm -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.25 Jul 3, 2012 12:57 pm -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Sampling and Data: Practice 1: Changed average to mean.
Version: 1.24 May 20, 2012 7:04 pm -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Updated Exercises 2 and 31.
Version: 1.23 Feb 17, 2012 2:05 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Minor edits.
Version: 1.22 Jan 28, 2012 11:29 am -0600 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Updated .DOC and .PDF files by adding Exercises 32 and 33.
Version: 1.21 Oct 13, 2011 9:53 pm -0500 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Homework:  Updated Exercise 8.
Version: 1.20 Jul 8, 2011 4:37 pm -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Corrected minor typo.
Version: 1.19 Jun 22, 2011 11:06 am -0500 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Added two new homework problems.
Version: 1.18 Feb 12, 2011 11:02 am -0600 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Added Exercise 31.
Version: 1.17 Mar 2, 2010 5:09 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
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Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Made minor edits to Exercise 31.
Version: 1.16 Mar 2, 2010 9:41 am -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Uploaded PDF file again because first upload did not work.
Version: 1.15 Mar 2, 2010 9:28 am -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
 Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Updated DOC and PDF files so that Exercises 1 & 3 have stem plots and line graphs, Exercise 4 has bar graphs; Added Exercise 31 for bar graphs.
Version: 1.14 Mar 1, 2010 8:51 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Homework: For Exercises 1 and 3, added line graphs and stem plots.  For Exercise 4, added bar graphs.  Added a new problem (Exercise 31) about the 2008 obesity rates in the U.S.
Version: 1.13 Mar 1, 2010 12:57 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
 Descriptive Statistics: Homework: Added stem plot and line graph to Exercises 1 and 3;  Added bar graph to Exercise 4.
Version: 1.12 Feb 18, 2009 7:20 pm -0600 by Connexions
Changes: 
Upconverted and added appropriate class attribute.
Version: 1.11 Oct 27, 2008 1:08 pm -0500 by James Cooper
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roles updated
Version: 1.10 Oct 1, 2008 2:24 am -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
See Change History (m17360) for a list of specific changes for this revision.
Version: 1.9 Aug 21, 2008 10:05 am -0500 by Connexions
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uploaded files
Version: 1.8 Jul 14, 2008 10:57 am -0500 by Connexions
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Modified/Removed image widths
Version: 1.7 Jul 8, 2008 8:11 pm -0500 by Connexions
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post review edits
Version: 1.6 Jul 3, 2008 11:25 am -0500 by Connexions
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post review updates
Version: 1.5 Jun 30, 2008 10:31 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
Updated for consistency within collection
Version: 1.4 Jun 27, 2008 10:40 am -0500 by Connexions
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Roles changed
Version: 1.3 Jun 26, 2008 4:22 pm -0500 by Jonathan Emmons
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Roles changed
Version: 1.2 Jun 26, 2008 4:10 pm -0500 by Jonathan Emmons
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Roles changed
Version: 1.1 Jun 22, 2008 2:12 pm -0500 by Jonathan Emmons
Changes: 
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