Math 160 I
Fall 2010
Assignments
Assignments are due in class on the due date.
Please show your work (where appropriate). Problems with only an
answer may not receive credit (homework and exams)
Please note that
answers to odd-numbered questions may be found in the back of the book.
When turning in an assignment, please turn in only that assignment - not
any late assignments you might have. Late assignments should be turned in
to me separately, and late assignments can not be accepted after the graded
assignment is returned to the class.
There will be two varieties of exercises in this course.
The first sort will be basic, generally short answer questions
usually taken from the textbook. These will be assigned generally once a
week, and will usually be 10 points.
The second sort will call for critical analysis and professional writing.
These exercise will generally be taken from a group of textbook exercises, but
you will be asked to write as if you are writing a report. You should open
with a description of the problem (which can be, for the most part, taken from
the problem write-up(s)), proceeding then to respond to the individual
questions, writing as if for a formal report (and not for a homework
assignment), integrating graphs and other documents from MiniTab into the text
(use MS Word) and not as a series of appendices. These final reports should
printed out from an appropriate word processing program (such as MS Word).
These questions will be given greater weight than the basic type I questions.
- Assignment #4, due Friday, October 15. Please work
- On page 122, problems 2.57, 2.58, 2.59, 2.63
- On page 127, problem 283
- On pages 138 - 142, problems 2.87, 2.104
- On page 152, problems 2.114, 115, 116. Give answers to each
part of each question individually (that is, don't just print out the
table we did in class and note that all the answers are there).
- Assignment #3, Due Monday, October 4. Please work
- On pages 60 - 61, problems 1.99, 1.100
- On page 66, problem 1.104
- On page 68, problem 1.106
- On pages 73 - 75, problems 1.114, 1.115, 1.118, 1.120, 1.139
- On page 95, problems 2.6, 2.7
- On pages 105 - 106, problems 2.29, 2.30, 2.31
- Assignment #2, Due Monday, September 17. Please work
- On pages 32 - 42, problems 1.47, 1.49, 1.50, 1.52, 1.53
- On pages 48 - 50, problems 1.56, 1.57, 1.64 (I am particularly
interested in your thoughtful response to part (a), 1.73, and 1.74
- On the first few exercises (through 1.53) you should probably do
your work by hand and then use MiniTab to check your results. On
the remaining exercises, please feel free to use MiniTab.
- Assignment #1. Due Thursday, September 9. Please work
- On pages 22 - 30, problems 1.10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.23,1.24. Since
MiniTab does not support back-to-back stemplots, feel free to use
multiple boxcharts instead (we'll see how to do this in class - if I
forget to do this in the first week, please remind me).
- Data for 1.23, 1.24 can be found in the minitab data files under
EX01_023.MTP and EX01_024.MTP (MiniTab Portable worksheet in directory
Minitab\ch01). However, please be ready to do this without the
software on an exam
- This exercise will be worth 10 points.
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