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    describes your design? 5. Explain in moderate detail the method you used to gather your data. In statistics this venture is called the “Methodology.” 6. Make sure you break your sample into classes or groups‚ such as males/females‚ or ages‚ or time of day‚ etc. 7. Calculate the mean‚ median‚ and mode for your data as a whole. 8. Now calculate the mean‚ median‚ and mode of each of your classes or groups. 9. Indicate which measure of central tendency best describes your data and why. Then

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    1. Arrange the following in descending order: a. 29 ‚23 ‚821 b. 15 ‚37 ‚710 2. A rectangular sheet of paper is 1212 cm long and 1023 cm wide. Find its perimeter. 3. Salil wants to put a picture in a frame. The picture is 735 cm wide. To fit in the frame the picture cannot be more than 7310 cm wide. How much the picture should be trimmed? 4. Find the perimeters of (i) ABE (ii) the rectangle BCDE in the figure below. Whose perimeter is greater? 5. In

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    requires them to understand the concepts and implicitly corrects misunderstandings. • Students run experiments to test statistical behavior. For example‚ they explore the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) by generating samples from several distributions. When they see that the sum of values from a Pareto distribution doesn’t converge to normal‚ they remember the assumptions the CLT is based on. • Some ideas that are hard to

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    MATHEMATICS SL INTERNAL ASSESSMENT TYPE 1 LACSAP’S FRACTIONS 10/11/2012 Tracy Braganza IB2T In mathematics‚ Lacsap’s fractions are based upon Pascal’s triangle. In this portfolio‚ the aim that was given was to consider a set of numbers that are presented in a symmetrical pattern‚ deduce a general statement and also to determine the limitations of the general statement that have been found. The answers in this portfolio will be attained with the help of a GDC calculator (GDC – TI84 Plus

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     are shared by the states and nation  belong to the national government  belong only to state governments Your score on this exam is 91 out of 180 . Answer Key Question 1 (Worth 3 points) (Courts and Civil Liberties 04.01 MC) A supreme court has jurisdiction on a case when the case has been  appealed directly from the trial court decision because of a constitutional question  heard by a court of appeal and there is a legitimate constitutional question  refused to be heard in either a criminal or civil court of appeals

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    walking and facing new things all the time. Indeed‚ some may say life is learning. In many ways‚ we all are learning at every moment since we started to breath until our very last breath. When we were young we learned how to read and write‚ likewise when we grow up we learn how to love. Psychologists believe that learning is a process through observations and reinforcements. However‚ in reality people can just learn from their own mistakes. Similarly to Bright lights‚ Big City by Jay McInerney‚ one

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    Critically evaluate the way the city has been represented in two or more texts‚ films or visual images studied in this module. In Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights‚ Big City‚ the reader follows an unnamed protagonist through his tumultuous daily life living in New York City. The use of second person narrative‚ specifically through the word “you” distances our protagonist from himself‚ making him seem alienated and alone despite being surrounded by the huge bustling city and it’s inhabitants. His lack

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    Susan Sontag‚ in "Against Interpretation‚" takes a very interesting critical standpoint on the idea of literary interpretation. Unlike most literary critics‚ Sontag believes that literary criticism is growing increasingly destructive towards the very works of art that they‚ supposedly‚ so greatly "appreciate" and "respect." Her standpoint could not be more accurate. Reading her work generates numerous questions‚ the most important of which is quite possibly‚ "How are we to take her final statement

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    first got interested in looking for new advertisements of males in magazines.  Bordo explicitly depicts her thoughts on how people look at the male body‚ how it was used in advertising‚ movies‚ and our culture overall.  She also goes into how over time the use of male bodies has changed in our culture.  Bordo uses a lot of pictures and actual advertisements to draw you in as a reader and get you thinking about the depictions of male physique in your own way. The author uses many major clothing companies

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    Carmencita Gonzalez Professor Orzeck‚ Ph.D. English 102.051 October 28‚ 2011 Should Flogging Be brought Back? Jeff Jacoby a columnist for the Boston Globe published an essay “Bring Back Flogging”‚ on the op-ed page on February 20‚ 1997. Jacoby states that flogging people is better than “Locking them up in cages.” (para. 4) He goes on to say that flogging will teach people moral and educational values‚ while “Prison is a graduate school of

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