Errata Listing

• *p. xxix: The title for Activity 9-12 should be "Monopoly Prices (cont.)"
• p. 33, Activity 2-8:  The table is missing the following column:

Top Price
75
90
70
80
75
65
75
80
75
80
75
80
80
75
80
60
75
80
80
80
60
60

• p. 36, Activity 2-11:  The table only has the information for 48 states, excluding Missouri and Wyoming.  The answer key includes answers for this activity both with and without these two states.  The missing information is as follows:

 

State	Region	Population	Uninsured
Missouri	MW	5,322	669
Wyoming	W	491	76

• p. 45, Activity 3-2:  Dotplot (7) is incorrectly displayed.  This is the correct dotplot:
• p. 53, Activity 3-7:  Replace the word "dotplots" with the word "histograms."
• *p. 54, Activity 3-8: Change "freshman" to "freshmen"
• p. 55, Activity 3-10:  Change $6750 to $6250.
• *p. 56, Activity 3-11: Two entries in the table are wrong, replace one 16 with a 17 and replace one 24 with a 25.
• p. 61, Activity 3-18: October's total should be $1010 instead of $1110.
• p. 70, Activity 4-2:  In part (h), please disregard the sentence "The relevant worksheets and columns are listed in the table."
• p. 72, Activity 4-3:  Please disregard the stray bullet next to the answer space for part (d).
• p. 77, Activity 4-9:  After part (a), please disregard the phrase "and are in column 3."
• p. 79, Activity 4-12:  In part (c), replace the word "half" with the term "two-thirds."
• p. 80, Activity 4-16:  In part (f), the word "spread" should be changed to the word "center."
• p. 86, Activity 5-1:  In part (l), the word "boxplots" should be changed to "a boxplot."
• p. 89, Activity 5-3:  Part (b) should reference Activity 4-2 on page 68, not Activity 3-7 as stated in the book.
• p. 96, Activity 5-7:  Part (a) should end with a period, not a question mark.
• p. 99, Activity 5-8:  In part (d) the last sentence should read "Does the ordering of the cities by the magnitude of their interquartile ranges correspond with the ordering by the magnitude of their standard deviations?"
• p. 101, Activity 5-12:  Insert "Topic" after "in" and before "1" in the first sentence.
• p. 102, Activity 5-19:  Replace the word "women" with the word "woman" in part (c).
• p. 122, Activity 6-6:  Part (b) should refer to Activity 5-14, not Activity 3-3.
• *p. 140, Activity 7-4: Replace "good" with "fair" in second sentence of (c).
• p. 147, Activity 7-14:   The number of men should be 541 and not 551.  The number of women with cancer should be 19 and not 29.  The number of men with cancer should be 10 and not 19.
• p. 175, Activity 8-19:  The table entry "Northern bath tisse (12 rolls)" should read "Northern bath tissue (12 rolls)."
• p. 183, Activity 9-2:  In the equation near the top of the page, the symbol x_y is incorrect.  It should be replaced with the symbol s_y.
• *p. 192, Activity 9-12: The title of the activity should be "Monopoly Prices (cont.)"
• *p. 199, Activity 10-1: There are only 12 destinations listed in the table, not 14.
• p. 208, Activity 10-3:  In part (l) the first sentence should read "Recall that you found the correlation between distance and airfare in (a) of Activity 10-2 on page 202."
• p. 215, Activity 10-12:  The question "What proportion of the variability in turnpike tolls is explained by the regression line with mileage?" should be labeled part (a).  The three other parts should be labeled (b), (c), and (d), not (j), (k), and (l).
• p. 227, Activity 11-2:  The last sentence in the shaded box should read, "Note that the value of r² alone is not sufficient for assessing the fit of the linear model."
• p. 230, Activity 11-4:  Part (c) should refer to part (b), not part (a).
• p. 245, Activity 12-3:  The table in part (f) should not have a data box under "Years of service."  There is nothing to write in this box.
• p. 248, Activity 12-4:  The table in part (c) should not have a data box under "Years of service."  There is nothing to write in this box.
• p. 251, Activity 12-5:  Replace 10 by 20 in the first sentence of (a).
• p. 253, Activity 12-6:  Insert "of 5 Senators each" after "100 samples" in the first sentence of (b).
• p. 263, Activity 12-26:  In part (d), change "sample" to "simple" before "random" in the first sentence.
• p. 281, Activity 13-6:  In part (a), replace "12" with "18."
• p. 282, Activity 13-6:  In part (d), change 100 to 1000.
• p. 282, Activity 13-6:  In part (d), the dotplot printed is incorrect.  This is the correct dotplot:
• p. 283, Activity 13-6:  In part (g), replace the first two sentences with, "Carry out this design by randomly placing half of the luxury cars into a treatment group and the other half into a control group.  Then randomly put half of the small cars into a treatment group and the other half into a control group."
• p. 287, Activity 13-13:  The number of men should be 541 and not 551.  The number of women with cancer should be 19 and not 29.  The number of men with cancer should be 10 and not 19.
• p. 303, Activity 14-2:  In part (f) insert a comma after "occurrences" and then insert the phrase "summing the products," with a comma.
• p. 308, Activity 14-5:  In part (a), the second question should refer to hospital B and not to hospital A.
• p. 321, Activity 15-1:  The first two letters of "Find" should not be in boldface in (e).
• p. 324, Activity 15-2:  Replace the period by a question mark at the end of the first sentence of (e).
• p. 330, Activity 15-6:  Replace "Table II" by "15-1" in (a).
• p. 332, Activity 15-10:  The first sentence should refer to Activity 5-6 on page 93, and not Table II.
• p. 348, Activity 16-4:  In part (f), change "(19)" to "(20)."
• p. 351, Activity 16-7:  In part (a), the seventh value of n should be 1000, not 100.
• pp. 355 & 356:  The header at the top should refer to Activity 16-15 and not 16-14.
• p. 368, Activity 17-3:  In part (f), mu should be $850, not $800.
• p. 370, Activity 17-5:  The tally for the value "15" in the table should be 18 and not 28 as listed.
• p. 372, Activity 17-7:  The labels 0, 10, 20, 30, and 40 should appear on the tick marks of the vertical axis in histogram B.
• p. 384, Activity 18-5:  The first probability entry in the table of (a) should be .3079 and not .0379.
• p. 386, Activity 18-6:  Question (e) should refer to question (k) and not to (f).
• p. 388, Activity 18-10:  Part (e) should read "Repeat (d) if you find that 30% of the sample are smokers."
• p. 401, Activity 19-4:  In parts (e)-(f), there should be labeled spaces for the student to record the widths of these intervals, on the same lines as the "Half-width" labels.
• p. 403, Activity 19-5:  In part (a) insert a period after ".45" and then start a new sentence with "For each of the sample proportions obtained, use technology to construct" and then finish the sentence as is.
• p. 409, Activity 19-14:  In part (f), change "five" to "four" in the first sentence.
• *p. 447, Activity 21-12: Replace "did" with "claimed to have done" in (a)
• p. 458, Activity 22-3: In part (g) change "(b) and (c)" to "(c) and (d)"
• * p. 459, Activity 22-4:  Insert a second sentence on (b): "Comment on the distribution."
• p. 463, Activity 22-9:  Part (d) should refer to Activity 22-1 on page 452, not Activity 22-3 on page 456.
• p. 478, Activity 23-5:  In part (c), delete the first "your" in the last sentence.
• *p. 484, Activity 23-15: Replace "home court" with "home field" in second sentence of (a).  Also replace 108 with 106 in (b) and 109 with 107 in (c).  Also replace the period with a question mark at the end of (d).
• * p. 501, Activity 24-3:  Insert "than" between "men" and "women".
• *p. 506, Activity 24-8:  Delete "Report these below." in (d) and "Report the interval below." in (e).
• *p. 507, Activity 24-10:  Change the first period to a comma and un-capitalize the first letter of "The".
• p. 509, Activity 24-15:  The number of men should be 541 and not 551.  The number of women with cancer should be 19 and not 29.  The number of men with cancer should be 10 and not 19.
• p. 517, Activity 25-1:  In the table showing the summary statistics for Grisham's and Moore's distributions, Moore's std.dev. should be 6.42 and not 15.58.
• *p. 526, Activity 25-3(f):  Change "lower" to "higher".
• *p. 528, Activity 25-4: Part (b) should begin with "all of Moore's sentences..." rather than "all of Moore's words..."
• *p. 544, Activity 26-1: Insert "the" between "describe" and "direction" in (b)
• p. 549, Activity 26-3:  In part (c), replace "text statistic" with "test statistic".
• p. 553, Activity 26-6:  The marginal totals are all wrong.  The column totals should be 388 (liberal), 440 (moderate), and 436 (conservative).  The row totals should be 802 (too little), 360 (just right), and 102 (too much).  The grand total should be 1264.
• p. 555, Activity 26-9(c): The z-statistic should be 4.15, not 4.25.
• p. 563, Activity 27-1:  The "n-1" under the square root sign in the numerator of the formula for the test statistic within the shaded box should be replaced by "n-2".
• p. 573, Activity 27-8:  Delete the second "Activity" in the first sentence.