AP Statistics

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Welcome back!

Welcome back to Aiken High! I’m excited about the upcoming year. I anticipate it will be strong one. Since most of you are seniors, I want to stress that the quality of this school year depends in large part on you. Make it great!

Calculators for Probability and Statistics

You’ll need a certain type of calculator for Probability and Statistics class. I’m a huge fan of pencil and paper, but there are some calculations it would take 30 minutes or more to complete that way. That might set you back a little during a 30-minute quiz.

Below, I’ve listed many calculators that will work in this class. Note, these are not all suitable for AP Statistics. Some are graphing calculators, but that is not a requirement. Most of the calculators are relatively inexpensive.

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Here is today's example

I was asked to post this example of a sample mean problem: Day 113, Sample mean example.pdf

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Re-quiz tomorrow

I’ll quiz today’s material again tomorrow. I’ve prepared an answer key which I need to scan and upload. It will be available after 3:30.

To prepare, most of you should focus on two things:

1. picking up easy points like “defining variables” and “answering in context.” I graded the first question as follows:

2. recognizing the difference between rescaling one random variable and combining random variables that happen to have the same mean and standard deviation.

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Answer sheet for today's worksheet

Here ‘tis: Chapter 16 worksheet(ans).doc.

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