MA 111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Interquartile Range, Pie Chart, Quartile
30 Apr 2019
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Exam 6 (given in class on thursday, december 3) will cover unit 6: descriptive statistics. Use chapter 14 in the textbook as a study tool. You should be familiar with the following key ideas: understand how to make and/or interpret the following graphical representations of data: Pie chart: remember the di erences between continuous and discrete variables, and between nu- merical and categorical variables. Understand which of the above graph types are best suited for these di erent types of variables: be able to critique a graph. The rst quartile q1 is the 25th percentile. The median m is the 50th percentile. The third quartile q3 is the 75th percentile: be able to make and/or interpret a box-and-whisker plot, know the de nition of the range and the interquartile range. Use the odd exercises on pages 545-554 of the text to supplement these.
