In: Statistics and Probability
In a city with three high schools, all the ninth graders took a Standardized Test, with these results:
High School | Mean score on test | Number of ninth graders |
---|---|---|
Glenwood | 79 | 280 |
Central City | 94 | 348 |
Lincoln High | 66 | 151 |
The city's PR manager, who never took a college math class,
claimed the mean score of all ninth graders in the city was 79.7 .
Of course, that is incorrect. What is the mean score for all ninth
graders in the city?
Round to one decimal place.
Mean of all ninth grader's scores =
To compute a student's Grade Point Average (GPA) for a term, the
student's grades for each course are weighted by the number of
credits for the course. Suppose a student had these grades:
3.7 in a 5 credit Math course
2.1 in a 2 credit Music course
3.0 in a 5 credit Chemistry course
3.0 in a 6 credit Journalism course
What is the student's GPA for that term? Round to two decimal
places. Student's GPA =
To compute a student's Grade Point Average (GPA) for a term, the
student's grades for each course are weighted by the number of
credits for the course. Suppose a student had these grades:
3.9 in a 5 credit Math course
2.0 in a 2 credit Music course
2.8 in a 5 credit Chemistry course
3.4 in a 4 credit Journalism course
What is the student's GPA for that term? Round to two decimal
places. Student's GPA =
Every year, the students at a school are given a musical
aptitude test that rates them from 0 (no musical aptitude) to 5
(high musical aptitude). This year's results were:
Aptitude Score | Frequency |
---|---|
0 | 4 |
1 | 3 |
2 | 2 |
3 | 1 |
4 | 5 |
5 | 1 |
The mean (¯xx¯) aptitude score: (Please show your answer
to 1 decimal place.)
The median aptitude score:
The mode aptitude score: (Please separate your answers
by ',' in bimodal situation. Enter DNE if there is no mode.)
The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of
widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 57
ounces and a standard deviation of 6 ounces.
a) 95% of the widget weights lie between and
b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 39 and 69
ounces? %
c) What percentage of the widget weights lie below 63
? %