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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Wednesday = 2 HW Responsibilities

If you were absent today you must make up your CI (ch. 19) quiz tomorrow or Friday during lunch, study hall, or after school either day (it's a 30 min quiz).

And if you were out today come ready--YOU WILL BE TAKING THE VOCAB QUIZ tomorrow! No excuses!

Tonight you have two things to get done....

1.) Based on today's "cereal" context: Please create a confidence interval (full process: conditions, math, interpret) AND then USE the interval to determine if the interval supports the students' belief that the proportion of boxes with vouchers is less than 0.2.


  • Do this in your notes (with the slide we glued in today)
  • If you were out, here's the context (and directions):



2.) STUDY! Tomorrow we'll start class with a chapter 19 vocab quiz. Here's the list:

  • Confidence Interval (what is it used for? why do we create a confidence interval?)
  • Sample Statistic
  • Population Parameter
  • Randomization condition: WHY do we check this? 
  • 10% condition: WHY do we check this? .
  • Success/Failure condition: WHY do we check this? 
  • Critical Value
  • Margin of Error
  • Point Estimate
  • Meaning of ___% Confident (Interpret C. Level)
  • Know how increasing/decreasing sample size affects ME and the width of an interval
  • Know how increasing/decreasing C. Level affects ME and the width of an interval
  • What determines the "one" in "one proportion z interval?" (it's "one" because there's one sample of data!)
  • Standard Error
    • An estimated standard deviation calculated using sample statistics
    • Standard error means the same thing as standard deviation; it's still a measure of spread, but it's technically called a standard error if we have to use p-hat in the formula instead of p
      • So, when we show the work for a confidence interval formula, technically we're showing a standard error under the square root, not a standard deviation

Today's Class Recap:
  • First 30 min = ch. 19 quiz
  • Got new ch. 20 slides and cut out first slide (see image above)
    • Discussed how we can address this question using a CI (our hw is to actually do this, see above)

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