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I'm taking statistics because I want to raise my GPA a little for college scholarships. I took advanced algebra last year and I got a decent grade an average grade with the work I did that was average. I took stats this year for another reason, and that was for when I'm in the workforce I have the basic knowledge as everyone else. Throughout my high school career I have taken math classes and haven't been completely challenged other than geometry. I have slacked throughout the other classes and I need to know general stats for the real world. This year for stats I feel I'm doing better than previous years for math. I have a “B+” as of the moment, but I broke my collarbone and got behind I'm trying to get back in the groove of things and working …show more content…

I hope what I can achieve from this class an “A” and raise my GPA. My senior year classes are easy to bring up my GPA, I wanted to worry about college and actual things people do in their senior year then homework.

There are ten things stats is very important for such as: weather forecasts, emergency preparedness, predicting diseases, medical studies, genetics, political campaigns, insurance, consumer goods, quality testing, and the stock market. Weather forecasts use stats to predict the weather using prior conditions, the weather forecasts tells us how to prepare for the day and what to expect throughout the day. Emergency teams use the weather forecasts to tell them to be ready or not to help people they use statistics to tell them when danger may occur. When predicting disease the lady or man telling you about the deaths or the disease is spreading it may not …show more content…

I like the idea of helping people. When I was young I wanted to be a firefighter, I had no clue why it sounded fun at the time. When I got older I started to change my mind into becoming a history teacher. My father is an art teacher and my brother is going to school to become a math teacher. I decided last year to take the intro to education class. I figured in the class that some students wouldn't like history as much as I do and they would ruin it for me. My senior year I knew that the teaching life was not the life for me. I want to become a firefighter, maybe stay in this area or go out by California and fight wildfires. It's going to exhausting work but I'm willing to do it to help the families and things around. Firefighters use statistics to figure out how many fires or injuries they had throughout the last couple of years. For example if there is 40,000 fires last year and at the end of this year there was 35,000 fires they would use the data from the two years and see the increase or decrease. They can also use statistics in the average age of a firefighter looking at the statistics the average age of a firefighter is anywhere between the age of 30-59 years old. While 16-19 years old is 3% and 20-29 is 21%. the information was used from. (http://www.firerescue1.com/fire-products/Firefighter-Accountability/articles/1063922-Top-10-firefighter-statistics/) and

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