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Describing Quantitative Data

Describing Quantitative Data. September 9, 2013. EQ: How do we use numerical information about a distribution's shape, spread, center, and outliers to describe special features of the data?. Warm-up. Imagine that 12 people in a room all shake hands

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Describing Quantitative Data

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  1. Describing Quantitative Data September 9, 2013 EQ: How do we use numerical information about a distribution's shape, spread, center, and outliers to describe special features of the data? Warm-up Imagine that 12 people in a room all shake hands with each other. Each person shakes everyone else's hand exactly once. How many handshakes are there in total? Explain your solution below.

  2. Activating Activity 1. Take and record your resting heart rate. 2. Record the heart rate of 15 classmates.

  3. Key Vocabulary Box: Whisker: Median: Lower Extreme: Upper Extreme: Lower Quartile: Upper Quartile: Describe what the distance between points on a Box and Whisker mean? http://www.brainingcamp.com/resources/math/box-plots/lesson.php

  4. Box and Whisker Plot Create a Box and Whisker Plot with Heart Rate Data you collected earlier. (Make sure to define the parts of the BWP.)

  5. "Human Box and Whisker Plot" With the use of the tape measures, measure your height in centimeters. - Record your height.

  6. Exit Question

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