Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology2nd EditionKenneth A. Gould; Tammy L. Lewis Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic USISBN: 9780190663872
Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology
Solutions for Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology
Problem 1SE:
Earnings A sociologist says, “Typically, men in the United States still earn more than women.” What...Problem 2SE:
Houses A real estate agent claims that all things being equal, houses with swimming pools tend to...Problem 3SE:
Age of CEOs (Example) the histogram shows the ages of 25 CEOs listed at Forbes.com. based on the...Problem 4SE:
Televisions The histogram shows the number of televisions in the homes of 90 community college...Problem 5SE:
Billionaires According to Forbes.com, the numbers of billionaires in the five states in the Midwest...Problem 6SE:
Billionaires According to Forbes.com, the numbers of billionaires in the five states in the...Problem 7SE:
Paid Vacation Days (Example 2) This list represents numbers of paid vacation days required by law...Problem 8SE:
Children of First Ladies This list represents the number of children for the first six “first...Problem 9SE:
Ages of Presidents at Inauguration At their inauguration, the ages of the first six presidents of...Problem 10SE:
Ages of Chief Justices at Installation At their installations as chief justice of the United States,...Problem 11SE:
Weight Loss (Example 3) The table shows Minitab descriptive statistics for the weight of some women...Problem 12SE:
Education of Father and Mother The table shows Minitab descriptive statics foe the years of...Problem 13SE:
Surfing College students and surfers Rex Robinson and Sandy Hudson collected data on the...Problem 14SE:
Eating Out College student Jacqueline Loya asked a group of 50 employed students how many times they...Problem 15SE:
Real state price (Example) look at the two histograms, created from 2009 real estate data taken from...Problem 16SE:
Dice The histogram contain data with a range of 1 to 6. Which group would have the larger standard...Problem 17SE:
Birth Weights (Example 5) The mean birth weigh for U.S children born at full term (after 40 weeks)...Problem 18SE:
Birth Length The mean birth length for U.S. children born at full term (after 40 weeks) is 52.2...Problem 19SE:
Children’s Ages (Example 6) Mrs. Johnson’s children 2,2,3, and 5 years of age. a. Calculate the...Problem 20SE:
Pay Rate in Different Currencies The pay rates for 3 people were the following numbers of dollars...Problem 21SE:
Olympics In the most recent summer Olympics, do you think the standard deviation of the running...Problem 22SE:
Weights Suppose you have a data set with the weights of all members of a high school soccer team and...Problem 23SE:
Brain Size The brain size (in hundreds of thousands of pixels) is reported for some men and women in...Problem 24SE:
Happiness A survey on StatCrunch asked people to report as their level of happiness from I (least...Problem 25SE:
Drinkers The number of alcoholic drinks per week is given for adult men and women who drink. The...Problem 27SE:
Violent Crime: West (Example 7) In 2011, the mean rate of violent crime (per 100,000 people) for the...Problem 28SE:
Violent Crime: East In 2011, the mean rate of violent crime (per 100,000 people) for the 10...Problem 29SE:
Property Crime (Example 8) In 2011, the mean property crime rate (per 100,000 people) for the 11...Problem 30SE:
Property Crime In 2011, the mean property crime rate (per 100.000 people) for the 10 states in the...Problem 31SE:
Heights and z-Scores The dotplot shows heights of college women; the mean is 64 inches (5 feet 4...Problem 32SE:
Heights Refer to the dotplot in the previous question. a. What is the height of a woman with a...Problem 33SE:
Unusual IQs (Example 9) Wechsler IQ tests have a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Which...Problem 34SE:
Lengths of Pregnancy Distributions of gestation periods (lengths of pregnancy) for humans are...Problem 35SE:
Low-Birth-Weight Babies (Example 10) Babies born weighing 2500 grams (about 5.5 pounds) or less are...Problem 36SE:
Birth Lengths Babies born after 40 weeks gestation have a mean length of 52.2 centimeters (about...Problem 37SE:
Women's Heights Assume that women's heights have a mean of 64 inches (5 feet 4 inches) and a...Problem 38SE:
SATs The quantitative portion of the SAT exam has a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. a....Problem 39SE:
Name two measures of the center of a distribution, and state the conditions under which each is...Problem 40SE:
Name two measures of the variation of a distribution, and state the conditions under which each...Problem 41SE:
Pixar Animated Movies (Example 11) The ten top-grossing Pixar animated movies for the U.S. box...Problem 42SE:
DreamWorks Animated Movies The ten top-grossing Dream Works animated movies for the U.S. box office...Problem 43SE:
Pixar Animated Movies Again (Example 12) Find the median and interquartile range of the top seven...Problem 44SE:
Dreamworks Animated Movies Find the median and innerquartile range of the top seven Dreamworks...Problem 46SE:
Drinks The number of alcoholic drinks per week is given for 45 adult men and 36 women who drink. The...Problem 47SE:
Outliers a. In your own words, describe to someone who knows only a little statistics how to...Problem 48SE:
Center and Variation When you are comparing two sets of data and one set is strongly skewed and the...Problem 49SE:
An Error A dieter recorded the number of calories he consumed at lunch for one week. As you can see,...Problem 50SE:
Baseball Strike In 1994, Major League Baseball (MLB) players went on strike. At the time, the...Problem 51SE:
Heads The graphs show the circumferences of heads for a group of men and a group of women. a. If you...Problem 52SE:
House Prices The graphs show the house prices (in hundreds of thousands of dollars) in two...Problem 53SE:
Shoes (Example 14) The histograms show the number Lit pairs of shoes reported for 300 males and for...Problem 54SE:
Tax Rate A StatCrunch survey asked people what maximum income tax rate (as a percentage of income)...Problem 55SE:
Regional Population Density The figure shows the population density (people per square mile) for the...Problem 56SE:
Property Crime Rates The boxplot shows the property crime rate per 100,000 residents in the 50...Problem 57SE:
City Temperatures The boxplot shows temperatures for six cities. Each city's boxplot was made from...Problem 58SE:
Brain Size The boxplots show the brain size (in hundreds of thousands of pixels) for 20 men and 20...Problem 59SE:
Matching Boxplots and Histograms a. Report the shape of each of the following histograms b. Match...Problem 60SE:
Matching Boxplots and Histograms Match each of the histograms (X, Y, and Z) with the corresponding...Problem 61SE:
Sleep Time of Animals Data at this text's website show the average amount of time animals sleep per...Problem 62SE:
BA Percentage The data show the percentage of residents with bachelor’s degrees in the 50 states and...Problem 63SE:
Tall Buildings The dotplot shows the distribution of the world's tallest buildings with respect to...Problem 64SE:
Passing the Bar Exam The dotplot shows the distribution of passing rates for the bar exam at 185 law...Problem 65SE:
Exam Scores The five-number summary for a distribution of final exam scores is 40, 78, 80, 90, 100...Problem 66SE:
Exam Scores The five-number summary for a distribution of final exam scores is 60, 78, 80, 90, 100...Problem 67CRE:
Death Row: South (Example 15) The table shows the numbers of capital prisoners (prisoners on death...Problem 68CRE:
Death Row: West The table shows the numbers of capital prisoners (prisoners on death row) in 2013 in...Problem 69CRE:
Head Circumference (Example 16) Following are head circumferences, in centimeters, for some men and...Problem 70CRE:
Heights of Sons and Dads The data at this text’s website give the heights of 18 male college...Problem 71CRE:
Final Exam Grades The data that follow are final exam grades for two sections of statistics students...Problem 72CRE:
Speeding Tickets College students Diane Glover and Esmeralda Olguin asked 25 men and 25 women how...Problem 73CRE:
Heights The following graph shows the heights for a large group of adults. Describe the...Problem 74CRE:
Marathon Times The following histogram of marathon times includes data for men and women and also...Problem 75CRE:
Soda Consumption A StatCrunch survey asked people about their consumption of soda as a percentage of...Problem 76CRE:
Holiday Spending A StatCrunch survey asked people how much money they spent for gifts during the...Problem 77CRE:
a. State an approximate value for the mean height by looking at the graph. b. Here is a proposed...Problem 78CRE:
Ideal Family In 2012, the General Social Survey asked respondents how many children they felt would...Problem 79CRE:
For exercises 3.85 through 3.88, construct two sets of numbers with at least five numbers in each...Problem 80CRE:
For exercises 3.85 through 3.88, construct two sets of numbers with at least five numbers in each...Problem 81CRE:
For exercises 3.85 through 3.88, construct two sets of numbers with at least five numbers in each...Problem 82CRE:
3.79-3.82 construct two sets of numbers with at least five numbers in each set (showing them as...Problem 83CRE:
Population Density Data were recorded for each of the 50 U.S. states: the state, its population (in...Problem 84CRE:
Population Increase Data were recorded for each of the 50 U.S states: the state, its population in...Problem 86CRE:
Eating Out, Again College student Jacqueline Loya asked 50 employed students how many times they...Problem 87CRE:
Study Hours A group of 50 statistics students, 25 men and 25 women, reported the number of hours per...Problem 88CRE:
Driving Accidents College student Sandy Hudson asked a group of college students the total number of...Problem 89CRE:
Exam Scores An exam has a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 10. What exam score corresponds to...Problem 90CRE:
Boys’ Heights Three-year-old boys in the United States have a mean height of 38 inches and a...Problem 91CRE:
SAT and ACT Scores Quantitative SAT scores have a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100, while...Problem 92CRE:
Children’s Heights Mrs. Diaz has two children: a 3-year-old boy 43 inches tall and a 10-year-old...Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
Chapter 1 - Introduction To DataChapter 2 - Picturing Variation With GraphsChapter 3 - Numerical Summaries Of Center And VariationChapter 4 - Regression Analysis: Exploring Associations Between VariablesChapter 5 - Modeling Variation With ProbabilityChapter 6 - Modeling Random Events: The Normal And Binomial ModelsChapter 7 - Survey Sampling And InferenceChapter 8 - Hypothesis Testing For Population ProportionsChapter 9 - Inferring Population MeansChapter 10 - Associations Between Categorical Variables
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