Units and Percents
The type of error that occurs when something is weighed without calibrating the scale first.
What is a systematic error?
The negation of "I am short."
What is "I am not short"
The probability that I pick a senior from my class, when all of my students are freshmen and sophomores.
What is 0?
A type of statistical study where the participants are not given a treatment of any kind.
What is an observational study?
The type of growth described by:
A population growing by 3% per year.
What is exponential growth?
What is 40,000 people/mi2?
The truth valuie of "The semester is almost over, or all people are green."
What is "True"?
The probability of picking 4 women from a class if the class has 10 women and 10 men?
What is 5040/116280 or 14/323 or 0.043?
The type of sampling used when a researcher surveys every 20th person on a list of 2000 people.
What is systematic sampling?
In y = mx + b, the rate of change.
What is m? or What is slope?
The absolute and relative errors when a carpenter writes that a wooden board is 7 feet long when it is really 7.3 feet long.
What are -0.3 and -4.1%?
The truth value of "If all people are green, then the semester is almost over."
What is True?
The number of different meals I can make if I choose a sandwich, a cookie, and a drink when there are 3 kinds of sandwiches, 4 kinds of cookies, and 6 kinds of drinks.
What is 72 meals?
The mean of 3, 6, 7, 7, 10?
What is 6.6?
The number I plug into r in Q=Qo(1 + r)t, if the rate of change is 2.5%.
What is 0.25?
The number of minutes in a century.
What is 52,560,000 minutes?
A sentence that is logically equivalent to "If I eat chocolate, then I am happy."
What is "If I am not happy, then I don't eat chocolate"?
The number of ways I can order pizza toppings online if I choose 3 different toppings out of 10 choices?
What is 120?
The type of data which can be displayed on a histogram.
What is quantitative data?
The percent growth that happens when a quantity doubles.
What is 100%
In US dollars per gallon, the cost a gallon of gas costs in Belgium if I spend 8.00 Euros per Liter.
What is $37.08 per gallon?
A deductive argument must be these two things in order for it to be Sound.
What are "valid" and " have true premises"?
The number of 4 digit numbers I can make using the digits from 0 to 9.
What is 10,000?
The standard deviation of 3, 6, 8, 2, 1.
What is 2.92?
The function which is described by:
A handyman is paid a flat fee of $300 and $30 for every hour worked.
When p=pay in dollars and t=time in hours.
What is p = 30t + 300?