Math153 Name(s):
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2/06 _______________________________________________
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Project 4:
Minitab14 (10 points) Compare salaries of Orioles and Yankees
Due: on or before Monday 2/20/06 beginning of this class. (We will go over the assignment
on this date, so the assignment can’t be accepted later.)
(see http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/default.aspx)
1) To your dataset add the salaries of the Yankees baseball team for
2005 using the link above. Change to
units of millions of dollars by dividing each number by 1000000 and rounding to
one decimal place. For example,
15,714,286 becomes 15.7. You may put
the Yankees data in the second column.
2) a) Which type of average would you use to describe the datasets? _________________
b) Why?
c) Average of salaries for Orioles: ______________________
Average of salaries for Yankees: ______________________
3) a) Compare the Oriole salaries with the Yankee salaries using boxplots in Minitab
Using Minitab, draw two boxplots. Graph, Boxplot, Multiple y’s Simple
The two boxplots will be printed on the same graph.
b) Name one difference or similarity between the salaries of the teams that you can see from the boxplots.
c) Complete: 25% of the Orioles make _____________________________ or more.
25% of the Yankees make ____________________________ or more.
4) Attach print-outs of the dotplots and boxplots, Session
window, Data worksheet window. Put your
name in the window before printing.