STOPLIGHTSection 1.3

Stoplight – Round 1A study of all 2223 passengers aboard the Titanic found that 706

survived when it sank.

Statistic

Unsure Parameter

Stoplight – Round 2 In New York City, there are 3250 walk

buttons that pedestrians can press at traffic intersections. It was found that 77% of those buttons do not work.

Statistic

Unsure Parameter

Stoplight – Round 3You randomly spot a group of ten girls in

the hallway and 6 of them have brown hair.

Statistic

Unsure Parameter

Stoplight – Round 4The amount of sugar in a coke can is 39.5

grams.

Discrete

Unsure Continuous

Stoplight – Round 5The volume of cola in a can of regular

Coke is 12.3 oz.

Discrete

Unsure Continuous

Stoplight – Round 6 In a test of a method of gender selection

developed by the Genetic and IVF Institute, 726 couples used the XSORT

method and 668 of them had baby girls.

Discrete

Unsure Continuous

Stoplight – Round 7The weights of OHS students.

Quantitative

Unsure Categorical

Stoplight – Round 8The names of OHS students.

Quantitative

Unsure Categorical

Stoplight – Round 9Critic ratings of movies on a scale from 0

star to 4 stars.

Nominal

Ordinal Interval

Ratio

Stoplight – Round 10Actual temperatures (in degrees

Fahrenheit).

Nominal

Ordinal Interval

Ratio

Stoplight – Round 11Companies (Disney, MGM, Warner

Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox) that produce movies.

Nominal

Ordinal Interval

Ratio

Homework – Extra Practice Textbook pages 16 #5,6 13, 14, 15.

Homework – Answers Textbook pages 16

#5: Statistic #6: Parameter #13: Discrete #14: Discrete #15: Continuous

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