Module 3 Assignment

Problem #1: Do problem 3.40 on page 97. Showing your work, use the standard score formula (from page 86) to calculate the standard score for someone scoring 1600 on the SAT and use Table A (on page 698 and 699 of the text) to determine the percentage of the population of SAT test takers who do that well or better.

Problem #2: See Excel spreadsheet 

Module 3 - Problem 2 (Spreadsheet)

Problem #3: Below is a scatterplot of the number of firefighters at various fire emergency locations plotted against the amount of damage sustained at those locations. Number of firefighters is on the x-axis and Damage is on the y-axis. Why is this wrong? What does it imply and how should the graph be corrected? (HINT: x-axis equals explanatory variable and y-axis equals response variable)