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Math 10 Lab Page
Math 10 Lab QuickLinks: Go directly to:
Data Analysis Lab
Probability Simulation Lab
Confidence Interval Lab
Data Anlaysis Lab : Home Team Advantage
This lab is available at the link below:
http://nebula.deanza.edu/~bloom//Math10/BaseballLab2007F.pdf
Depending on the quarter, we will use data for either NBA professional basketball
or major league baseball.
We are comparing results for home games and away games
to use statistics to determine if there really is a home team advantage, using data as
of the end of the regular season.
YOU MUST DO THE DATA ANAYSIS PORTIONS PARTS A AND B ON THE HANDOUT ITSELF IN THE SPACES PROVIDED - do NOT rewrite the lab in your own format.
If you were not in class on the date that the lab was started,
then you need to do the lab alone -
you can not join a group that already did lab work without your participation.
Probability Simulation Lab
This lab is available at the link below:
http://nebula.deanza.edu/~bloom//Math10/M10ProbMHLab.pdf
We will perform a simulation to determine the answer to the "Monty Hall (Let's Make a Deal" problem. If you saw the Movie "21" then you heard the problem and its solution in the classroom scene early in the movie. The problem is explained in the lab handout. If curious, you can research the theoretical answer to this problem online. We will verify that solution using simulation.
To complete the questions on the lab, after you do your simulation, you will need class data. Class data is now posted at the link below: both classes are on separate pages in the same document, so look at the page for your class (page 1 for 3pm class and page 2 for 12:30 class).
http://nebula.deanza.edu/~bloom//Math10/LabDataMonteHallSumr2008.pdf
LINKS FOR PLAYING THIS GAME ONLINE
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/SimpleMontyHall/?version=1.5.0_11&browser=MSIE&vendor=Sun_Microsystems_Inc.
http://math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/Monty/monty.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08monty.html#
Discussion of game and the mathematics behind the correct solution on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
Keith Devlin writes about the Monty Hall Problem: http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_07_03.html
Confidence Interval Lab
This lab is available at the link below:
LINK WILL BE PUT UP DURING SUMMER SESSION
This lab will explore some of the underlying concepts of confidence intervals, beyond merely knowing how to calculate them.
THE REST OF THIS PAGE IS NOT APPLICABLE TO SUMMER 2008
Math 10 Lab QuickLinks: Go directly to:
Chapter 1 Lab
Chapter 3 Lab
Chapter 5 Lab
Chapter 9 Lab
Chapter 10 Lab
Chapter 12 Lab
Chapter 12 Lab: Gasoline Mileage in Miles per Gallon
THIS LAB NOT ASSIGNED SUMMER 2008
LINK NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
The outlier is a Toyota Prius, which is a hybrid car using a combination of gasoline and electric power, whereas all other cars in your sample have traditional gas engines.
This fact is needed in answering the conclusions required in questions 11 and 12.
Chapter 3 Lab : m&ms
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The lab is on pages 111 & 112 in the textbook.
If you wish, you can use the worksheet at the link below for calculating the probabilities at the bottom of page 111 - it has enough room to write out your work neatly.
It is a copy of the bottom half of the page 111 in the textbook for this lab. STAPLE all your work together.
http://nebula.deanza.fhda.edu/math/FT/Bloom/Math10/M&MLabProbWorkshS07.pdf
Examples of how to do this lab are available on Susan Dean's website at the links below:
Demonstration video of lab
http://www.deanza.edu/bmc/ppts/MandMLabs/
Word document explaining calculations for m&ms lab.
http://facultyfiles.deanza.edu/gems/deansusan/MMLabInst.doc
If you use Susan Dean’s data for her m&m's and not your own data on the lab you turn in, you earn 0 on the lab!)
Chapter 9 Lab : Hypothesis Tests
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Chapter 10 Lab : Hypothesis Tests.
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Chapter 1 Lab : Sampling Lab
Sampling Lab at end of chapter 1 in textbook
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Your description of your process is as important as your selection of restaurants in the samples. Your descriptions should be COMPLETE. My judgement of the completeness of your descriptions of the procedures are whether a new Math 10 student just joining the class and starting the lab would be able to complete the lab based on your instructions. Your instructions should not be aimed at understanding by the instructor, who already knows how to do the lab, but should be aimed at explaining the lab to a newcomer to the class.
Chapter 5 Lab
At the end of chapter 5 in textbook, p. 179
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** To generate the list of random numbers on a TI83 or TI84: Press MATH. Then arrow over to PROB. Press ENTER for menu item 1:rand. Complete the command as follows: rand(50) the press the STO-> key and then press 2nd L1 to store your list in list L1. (The STO-> key is the key that is located one key above the ON key.)
**Then you can use 1 variable statistics and you can use the calculator to create the histograms, and just draw the histogram that appears on your screen onto the lab. You will need to think about how to set up the Window to get the requested number of bars on the histogram - we learned how to set up the Window in chapter 2.
**Whenever the question asks for the 40th percentile, find the first quartile instead. You can find the first quartile using your calculator, rather than creating a cumulative relative frequency table by hand. Do not find the 40th percentiles for any quesions, find Q1 instead.
** If you want to back up your list into list L6 as well, so that you don't inadvertently write over it while doing something else, on the homescreen Press 2nd L1, then press the STO-> key and then press 2nd L6 and you will have a copy stored in L6 in case you inadvertently wipe out L1 before you are done with the lab.
**The data is random, so different group members will have different lists using the same command. If members of a group want the same list in their calculators, see your instructor after class with both calculators and the instructor will transfer the list to the other calculator. The TI-86 does not appear to work for this lab, and it will not accept a list from a TI-83 or TI-84
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