Math 113 - Technology Project 4
Randomness and Probability
Group Members
1. __________________________
2. __________________________
3. __________________________
Project
Follow the Minitab instructions under the
technology exercises link on the website for information about how to do
the problems.
- Create a contingency table for the race and sex of the respondents to the
2000 General Social Survey. Use the table to answer these questions.
- Create a joint probability distribution.
- Make a conditional probability for race.
- Make a conditional probability for sex.
- What is the probability that a randomly selected person will be
of another race besides white or black?
- What is the probability that a randomly selected person will
be a white female?
- What is the probability that a randomly selected person will
be a white or a female?
- What is the probability that a randomly selected male
will be black?
- What is the probability that a randomly selected black
will be male?
- Demonstrate the Law of Large numbers by generating 1000
values with a probability of ________. Do this four times
and place
all four graphs
on the same graph.
Describe what the Law of Large numbers says and how this
graph demonstrates that.
- In Technology Project 3, we learned that Jalen Rose
of the Chicago Bulls averages 19 field goal attempts
per game
and
makes 40.6%
of his attempts.
- Explain why the binomial distribution is appropriate
for the number of shots made.
- Create a probability distribution for the number
of shots made during an average game.
- Graph the probability distribution.