Review!!!

Assignment 3 issues

• Women in the United States continue to be paid less than men overall. Nationally, in 2007, the median weekly earnings of female full-time wage and salary workers totaled $614, while it was $766 for males.

a. Fill in the blank using the data: In 2007, male full-time wage and salary workers earned _________ % more than female full-time wage and salary workers.

Assignment 3 issues

b. What percent of male full-time wage and salary worker median weekly earnings does the female median weekly earnings represent? (This percentage is often called the women-to-men's earning ratio.)

Assignment 3 issues

Assignment 3 issues

Activity 6

• Know how to Sort and Autosum

Activity 5

• Looked good

Assignment 4

Chicago “drops” in absolute, but not in rate

Assignment 4

g. There were exactly four cities with population greater than 500,000 with a rate higher than Chicago's. Which were they?

• You can be selective using absolute vs. relative quantities and you can be selective in general

Midterm Review Highlights

• y = mx + b• For predictions, I’m looking for practical /

physical sense of the situation and a rough interpretation of r-squared.

• y = P*(1 +/- r)x

valuereference

valuereference - valuenewr

Excel - lent

• Excel fill feature for exponentials

Midterm Review Highlights

• 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14• Absolute change• The pesky reference value – earlier value, the

one being referred to in “more than”

Final Project!!!

• A note on late work – previous assignments / activities are due by Friday

• Write article and present it• Stage 1 – groups of three / two• Find topic • Answer questions regarding table

Finding Tables for Project

• On the home page for this class• On tabs to the left click on “Excel Files”• At the very bottom of this page there is a link

to “2009 US Statistical Abstract”• Your table number should be under the

respective topic.