Understanding Statistics					 J.R. Rasmussen

Assignment 3 
Due Wednesday 10/21/09

Be sure to show your work and write down the Excel syntax if you used Excel. 
 Answers without supporting work will be graded down.

All readings are in Devore

Read section 7.1    pages 295-302
	Problems   pgs. 302-304:  7.2, 7.6, 7.8 (c)

Read section 7.2    pages 304-311
	Problems   pg. 312:  7.12 (a) & (b), 7.14 (a) & (b)

Read the class hand out   pages 265-271
	Problems from the hand out   pgs. 271-272:  6.20, 6.22 (a), 6.26

In the text book:  Read The binomial distribution    pages 694-700
	Problems   pgs. 700-702:  	A2 (a) & (c), A3 (a) & (c), A11 (a) & (b)

Required readings in Salsburg:  The Lady Tasting Tea
		Chapter 2:	pages 14-top of page 18
		The section titled "Distributions and Parameters"

Optional readings in Gonick & Smith  The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
		Random Variables:  Pages 53-58
		Mean and variance of random variables:  Pages 59-62
		Binomial Distribution:  Pages 74-77