Math153 Name(s):
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3/06 _______________________________________________
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Project 6: (10 points)
Due: on or before Friday, MARCH 17, 2006 (ALSO Project Extra Credit 1 due 3/17).
1) Read an article which interests you from the Chance Wiki site
http://chance.dartmouth.edu/chancewiki/index.php/Main_Page
The article should be about one page long or longer.
a) State the title of the article and the number of the Chance News in which it was located. Give a brief summary of the article (few sentences). Please type if your handwriting is not clear.
b) Relate the article to some topic we discussed in class (few sentences). Please type if your handwriting is not clear.
Some Suggestions:
2. Law: “I was quoting the statistics, I wasn't pretending to be a statistician” The Sally Clark murder case in Great Britain, Previous Chance News, Chance News 3
3. Criminal Justice: “Statistics could have spotted mass murderer”, Chance News 6
2) Read the article “Binge Drinking and Violence” on the library website under my name and answer the following questions.
Click on libraries (on the right)
CCBC Essex library (on the left)
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Math 153
Article under the row JAMA, last column
If you want to print the article, use the printer icon in Adobe Acrobat.
a) According to this article, what is the probability that a college student had engaged in binge drinking in the past two weeks? _____
b) What other information would you like to know regarding this statistic?