WEEK 10 ASSIGNMENT - Mathematical Reasoning

WEEK 10 ASSIGNMENT – Mathematical Reasoning

WEEK 10 ASSIGNMENT - Mathematical Reasoning

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Overview

Probability and descriptive statistics are used all around us (think: life expectancy, batting averages, chances of rain, election results, sales, and lottery tickets). Both give us an opportunity to analyze data and are especially useful for making decisions. Each of the following problems will assess your ability to use basic probability and descriptive statistics to solve real-world quantitative problems.

Instructions

Use of the provided assignment template is required.

Note: This assignment does not require research, but if you choose to use information from a source, be sure to cite it. This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all support. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

When you have answered all parts of the assignment, save the template with your completed responses as a Word document titled: YourName_MAT110_Week_10_Assignment and submit it below.

Using Basic Probability and Descriptive Statistics to Solve Real-World Problems

Question 1

Instructions

Both descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, and range) and probability (the likelihood that something will happen) can be useful in our academic, professional, and personal lives.

·         Determine which of the two (descriptive statistics or probability) you find to be the most useful in your life and explain why using two (2) specific examples.

Question 2

Instructions

Read the scenario and use your knowledge of descriptive statistics to answer the prompt.

You are the marketing manager at The Best Candy Shop where the top sales item is the Dream Pop bags of flavored candies. You have been getting complaints from customers that there are not enough lemon or blueberry flavored candies, which are favorites, and too many grape and strawberry flavored candies. Your boss wants you to create an advertisement indicating, “all bags have equally likely flavors.” (That is, the probability of getting a strawberry flavored candy piece is the same as getting a blueberry flavored candy piece, etc.).

As the marketing manager, you want to make sure you are advertising truthful information, so you pull a sample bag of Dream Pop candy and find the following pieces:

·         16 grape flavors

·         12 strawberry flavors

·         6 lemon flavors

·         6 blueberry flavors

·         Explain how you could communicate to your boss that his advertising suggestion (all bags have equally likely flavors) would be incorrect. You must include at least two (2) probabilities from your sample bag of candy that would deem his advice inaccurate.

PART OF THE MAT 110 PLUS ALEKS ASSIGNMENT