The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
4th Edition
ISBN: 9781118156599
Author: Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Chapter 9.2, Problem 30MS
Whoops. Find an example in a recent newspaper or magazine story where statistics were presented in a misleading manner. Explain why the statistics are misleading.
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Chapter 9 Solutions
The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
Ch. 9.1 - Embarrassing data. Suppose you asked 100 students...Ch. 9.1 - Hugging both parents (S). You ask 150 students to...Ch. 9.1 - Short test. To save time grading, a professor asks...Ch. 9.1 - Computer polls. Suppose dot-corn entrepreneurs...Ch. 9.1 - Voluntary grade inflation. The dean felt that a...Ch. 9.1 - Pornography (ExH). Suppose you asked 100 students...Ch. 9.1 - Cartoons. Suppose 380 students out of 1000 still...Ch. 9.1 - Bias beef (H). Suppose you have an assignment to...Ch. 9.1 - Drug data (ExH). You ask 250 students to answer...Ch. 9.1 - Kissing. You ask 180 students to answer the...
Ch. 9.1 - Cheating (S). Suppose 60 students out of 200...Ch. 9.1 - Dental hygiene. Suppose you want to know how often...Ch. 9.1 - More homework. In a recent survey of random...Ch. 9.1 - PBS. In the old days, the Nielsen ratings of...Ch. 9.1 - 9:00 AM versus 9:00 PM (H). You take a survey of...Ch. 9.1 - Internet askew. Find ads or articles on the Web...Ch. 9.1 - Sleazy survey (H). The mayor of a city seeks to...Ch. 9.1 - Bread winners? You want to know in what percentage...Ch. 9.1 - Beemer babies (H). You want to estimate what...Ch. 9.1 - Coffee, tea, or milk? Youre considering whether to...Ch. 9.1 - The dog pound. Otis the puppy grew approximately...Ch. 9.1 - Hows that again? An ambitious politician in your...Ch. 9.1 - Smells like team spirit. A losing basketball team...Ch. 9.1 - Stack me timbers. Every October, students from the...Ch. 9.1 - Risky business (H). In a psychology class, the...Ch. 9.1 - Risky II. The psychology instructor from the...Ch. 9.2 - Internet costs. 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You have four different dice and...Ch. 9.3 - More matching. A class was quizzed on two...Ch. 9.3 - Gas guzzling. In the One-Die Random Gas Station...Ch. 9.3 - Dr Die. Suppose you doctor a standard six-sided...Ch. 9.3 - Dr. Mean (S). What is the mean roll you would...Ch. 9.3 - A podiatrist in the making. Suppose you ask the...Ch. 9.3 - Beanie babies (S). All freshmen entering...Ch. 9.3 - Retiring standards (ExH). A classmate describes a...Ch. 9.3 - Unseasonable weather. The average high temperature...Ch. 9.3 - Are you normal? Which of the following data sets...Ch. 9.3 - Warming Up? (H) Suppose we measure the temperature...Ch. 9.3 - Possibly uniform. Which of the following data sets...Ch. 9.3 - Under the normally spreading chestnut tree. A...Ch. 9.3 - Abnormal. Give two example of data sets from your...Ch. 9.3 - Heavry petting. You adopt a kitten from the animal...Ch. 9.3 - Less than normal. Here are some distributions that...Ch. 9.3 - Gas guzzling (ExH). 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(ExH) You want to gather data...Ch. 9.4 - More voting bodies (H). You want to gather data...Ch. 9.4 - National poll. Suppose you do polling in each of...Ch. 9.4 - Dizzy Lincoln. The text describes a penny-spinning...Ch. 9.4 - Hire a consultant. A consulting firm analyzed...Ch. 9.4 - House of cards. Your friend hands you a deck of 52...Ch. 9.4 - A fish story (ExH). You are a biologist sampling...Ch. 9.4 - Political gamble. The mayor of a small city has...Ch. 9.4 - The power of placebo. A study of pain relief...Ch. 9.4 - Marge Innoverra. You test 100 light bulbs randomly...Ch. 9.4 - How many math students does it take …(S). How...Ch. 9.4 - … to screw in a lightbulb? How many light bulbs...Ch. 9.4 - Snack sample (H). A survey asking students whether...Ch. 9.4 - Stop the study (ExH). A 2006 NIH study of...Ch. 9.4 - The sniff test. In 2004 the British Medical...Ch. 9.4 - Roving report. In 2006 there was a scandal...Ch. 9.4 - Polling roundup (H). A polling organization wants...Ch. 9.4 - Rodent roundup. Your psychology class is planning...Ch. 9.4 - Even more confident. Mindscape 27 gives a more...Ch. 9.4 - ESP. Your psychology class does some experiments...Ch. 9.4 - Trying trials. Your roommate is supervising an...Ch. 9.5 - Mendels snapdragons. Another of Mendels...Ch. 9.5 - Telephone/soda twins. Suppose your school has 1000...Ch. 9.5 - Correlation comparison. Below are three...Ch. 9.5 - Percent practice. Convert the fractions below to...Ch. 9.5 - Family dinner. Recent studies have reported on the...Ch. 9.5 - More Mendel (S). Given Mendels snapdragon...Ch. 9.5 - Oedipus red. Given Mendels work described in...Ch. 9.5 - Oedipus white. Given Mende1 work described in...Ch. 9.5 - Prob. 9MSCh. 9.5 - Astrology. An experiment is done to test the value...Ch. 9.5 - Stressful diet. One hundred young women were given...Ch. 9.5 - Abstinence evidence? President George W. Bush...Ch. 9.5 - Matching correlations. 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