1. Students select a Middle Eastern nation to compare to the United States. Use the links on the Central Bank and Monetary Authority website to research both Central Banks.

2. Students submit a paper that addresses the following areas;
         a. Compare and contrast when, why and how each central bank was established.
         b. Compare and contrast two mandates of each central bank.
         c. Compare and contrast the degree of autonomy and transparency of each central bank.
         d. Compare and contrast the role of each central bank in the market for domestic interest rate policy.

23.(8 pts) An algebra test is given to students at the beginning of a statistics course. The algebra test scores and the final statistics grades are collected for several randomly selected students and the results are given below. x = Algebra 80 78 75 63 84 y = Statistics 77 92 87 81 68 a. n = _____ r = ___________b0 =________ b1 = _____________ ?bar = __________

b. Test the claim that there is a linear correlation using the Critical Value Approach. c. Find the equation of the regression line. d. Predict the Statistics score when the Algebra score is 47.

Several years​ ago, 45​% of parents who had children in grades​ K-12 were satisfied with the quality of education the students receive. A recent poll asked 1 comma 015 parents who have children in grades​ K-12 if they were satisfied with the quality of education the students receive. Of the 1 comma 015 ​surveyed, 464 indicated that they were satisfied. Construct a 90​% confidence interval to assess whether this represents evidence that​ parents' attitudes toward the quality of education have changed. Use technology to find the 90​% confidence interval.

You've surveyed the student body about time spent on coursework each week. The mean (??) is 8.3 hours with a standard deviation (??) of .85 hours. What is the probability of a student reporting working 10 hours or more each week on course work? What is the probability of a student reporting 5 hours or less on coursework? What proportion of students report doing coursework between 7 and 9 hours per week? How many hours would a student do coursework if he or she worked longer than 95% of other students?

A frequency distribution for the ages of randomly selected 27 students taking a statistics course in a college is given below. a. Make a relative frequency histogram for the data. Label axes and units. b. What is the shape of the distribution? c. Compute the sample mean d. Use information from (c) to fill in the blanks in the following statement: In the sample of 27 students taking statistics, the average age of a student is about _______.

Age Frequency

18 4

19 5

20 7  

21 3

22 4

23 2

24 0

25 1

26 1

Finance course grade information regarding male and female students of a large university is shown below (?" and ?! unknown) and assumed unequal).
Sample Size
Sample Mean Grade Sample Variance
Female Male
24 28 29.8 27.3 6,554 3,276
a) Test whether or not the average grade of females is significantly greater than that of males at ⍺=0,05 % significance level?
b) Develop 90 % confidence interval estimate of the difference between grade of the female and male students.
Not: You have to draw the table to see which area that you have to calculate

9)A professor gave a quiz in a statistical methods class and created a histogram to observe the shape of the data. What would be the expected shape of the histogram if

a) the quiz is very easy

b) the quiz is very difficult

c) few students had high scores and few had low scores. Rest of them were in the middle, around (both sides) of the average score.

d) half of the students in the class have had good math background, other half have had no prior college math courses. The quiz emphasizes higher level math skills.

1. Construct a Pie Chart:

You obtained the following data related to demographics in your statistics class:

Race                                                   Number of Students

Hispanic                                             15

Asian                                                  10

African American                             12

Caucasian                                          19

Native American                              5

What can you infer from your data?

2. Construct a Bar Graph:

You obtained the following data related to demographics in your statistics class:

Religion                                                            Number of Students

Christian                                                           17

Muslim                                                              18

Buddhist                                                           19

Catholics                                                          20

Not Religious                                                  24

What can you infer from your data?

A researcher was interested in whether the female students who enrolled in her stats course were more interested in the topic than the males. The researcher obtained a random sample of 8 male and 8 female students and gathered their scores on an Interest in Statistical Topics (IST) Survey.

Girls’ IST scores: 21, 37, 22, 20, 22, 20, 22, 21

Boys’ IST scores: 20, 20, 20, 21, 21, 20, 23, 21

Test the researcher’s hypothesis using α =.05

Please show answer testing for equal variances.

Consider three students taking an examination. Their respective probabilities of obtaining the different available grades are shown in Table 1. (a) What is the probability that each will obtain a grade of A? (b) If two students were to receive an A, what is the probability that Jim would be among them?

Table 1. Probabilities of Individual Student Exam Grades*

Student    Grade   

                 A   B     C     D      F

Terry         0.5 0.3 0.1 0.06 0.04

Jim           0.4 0.4 0.1 0.07 0.03

Sam         0.3 0.3 0.3 0.05 0.05

* Assume each examination outcome to be independent.