STAT 100, Section 1: Statistical Concepts and Reasoning

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Date AssignedAssignment
Dec. 7 and Dec. 9 There are no other homework assignments for this class except this: Prepare for the final exam!
Dec. 5 Before Wednesday's class, pick up old midterms; retake them and/or study the questions you missed.
Dec. 2 Before Monday's class, complete the online practice problems for Chapters 22-25.
Nov. 30 Before Friday's class, read Chapter 25 and do exercises 1, 6, 8, 9, and 10 on pages 479-480.
Nov. 28 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 24 and do exercises 1, 2, and 5 on pages 460-462.
Nov. 22 Before next Monday's class, read Chapter 23 and do exercises 1, 2, 3, 8, and 16 on pages 445-448.
Nov. 21 Before Tuesday's class, do exercises 3, 5, 6, 11, and 13 on pages 428-429.
Nov. 18 Before Monday's class, read Chapter 22.
Nov. 14 Prepare for midterm on Nov. 16.
Nov. 11 Before Monday's class, solve the practice midterm problems WITHOUT looking at the answers.
Nov. 9 Before Friday's class, reread Chapter 3 and do exercises 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 10 on pages 51-52.
Nov. 7 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 3.
Nov. 4 Before Monday's class, do exercises 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 15 on pages 383-385.
Nov. 2 Before Friday's class, read Chapter 21 and do exercises 1, 2, 3a, and 3b on pages 402-403.
Oct. 31 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 20 and do exercises 1, 2, 4, and 6 on pages 382-383.
Oct. 28 Before Monday's class, reread Chapter 19 and try the exercises assigned on Oct. 28.
Oct. 26 Before Friday's class, read Chapter 19 and do exercises 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, and 10 on pages 367-369.
Oct. 24 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 18 and do exercises 1, 4, 7, 10 and 15 on pages 347-349.
Oct. 21 Before Monday's class, read Chapter 17 and do exercises 2, 4, 6, 13, and 18 on pages 330-333.
Oct. 17 Prepare for Wednesday's exam!
Oct. 12 Begin preparing for midterm #2 by taking the practice exam posted on the web.
Oct. 10 Before Wednesday's class, finish reading Chapter 16 and do exercises 19, 21, 22, and 25 on pages 315-316.
Oct. 7 Before Monday's class, read the first part of Chapter 16, pages 297-304. Do exercises 1, 2, 3, 9, 11, and 17 on pages 311-315.
Oct. 5 Before Friday's class, read Chapter 12 and do exercises 9, 11, 15, and 17 on pages 235-238.
Oct. 3 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 13 and do the exercise at the end of lecture 13.
Sept. 30 Before Monday's class, read Chapter 11 and do exercises 4, 5, 8, 13, and 17 on pages 213-215.
Sept. 28 Before Friday's class, reread Chapter 10 and do exercises 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, and 13.
Sept. 26 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 10.
Sept. 21 Finish perparing for Exam #1 on Friday, Sept. 23
Sept. 19 Before Wednesday's class, do exercise 11 on page 75; exercise 11 on page 142; and exercise 4 on page 158.
Sept. 16 Before Monday's class, read the rest of Chapter 5 and do exercises 7, 8, 10, and 13 on pages 101-102.
Sept. 14 Before Friday's class, read sections 5.1 and 5.2 and do exercises 1, 2, 3, 5 on pages 100-101.
Sept. 12 Before Wednesday's class, read Chapter 4 and do exercises 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 17 on pages 73-77.
Sept. 9 Before Monday's class, do exercises 2, 3, 8, 10, 16 on pages 156-160.
Sept. 7 Before Friday's class, do exercises 5, 6, 10, 12 on pages 141-142. Then read Chapter 8.
Sept. 2 Before Wednesday's class, begin reading Chapter 7 and do exercises 1 and 2 on p. 141.
Aug. 31 Before Friday's class, read Chapter 1 and do exercises 1, 7, 16, and 17 on pp. 10-13.