# Eureka Math Algebra 1 Module 2 Lesson 6 Answer Key

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### Eureka Math Algebra 1 Module 2 Lesson 6 Example Answer Key

Example 1.
Your teacher will show you how to use a calculator to find the mean and standard deviation for the following set of data.
A set of eight men have heights (in inches) as shown below.

Indicate the mean and standard deviation you obtained from your calculator to the nearest hundredth.
Mean: _______
68.98 inches

Standard Deviation: _____
1.59 inches

Show students the steps to calculate the mean and the standard deviation of a data set using a calculator or statistical software. The following instructions outline the steps of the statistical features for the TI-83 or TI-84 calculators (one of several calculators used by high school students):
1. From the home screen, press STAT, ENTER to access the stat editor.
2. If there are already numbers in L1, clear the data from L1 by moving the cursor to L1 and pressing CLEAR, ENTER.
3. Move the cursor to the first element of L1, type the first data value, and press ENTER. Continue entering the remaining data values to L1 in the same way.
5. Press STAT, select CALC, select 1-Var Stats, and press ENTER.
6. The screen should now show summary statistics for your data set. The mean is the $$\bar{x}$$value, and the standard deviation for a sample is the sx value.

Note: Instructions may vary based on the type of calculator or software used. The instructions above are based on using data stored in L1. If data are stored in another list, they need to be referred to after selecting 1-Var Stats in step 5. For example, if data were entered in L2:
5. Press STAT, select CALC, select 1-Var Stats, and then refer to L2. This is done by pressing 2ND, L2 (i.e., 2ND and then the 2 key). The screen will display 1-Var Stats L2. Then, press ENTER.

### Eureka Math Algebra 1 Module 2 Lesson 6 Exercise Answer Key

Exercise 1.
The heights (in inches) of nine women are as shown below.

Use the statistical features of your calculator or computer software to find the mean and the standard deviation of these heights to the nearest hundredth.
Mean: _____
68.29 inches

Standard Deviation: ___
1.58 inches

Exploratory Challenge/Exercises 2–5

Exercise 2.
A group of people attended a talk at a conference. At the end of the talk, ten of the attendees were given a questionnaire that consisted of four questions. The questions were optional, so it was possible that some attendees might answer none of the questions, while others might answer 1, 2, 3, or all 4 of the questions (so, the possible numbers of questions answered are 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4).
Suppose that the numbers of questions answered by each of the ten people were as shown in the dot plot below.

Use the statistical features of your calculator to find the mean and the standard deviation of the data set.
Mean: ___
2 questions
Standard Deviation: ___
1.15 questions

Exercise 3.
Suppose the dot plot looked like this:

a. Use your calculator to find the mean and the standard deviation of this distribution.
Mean: 2 questions
Standard Deviation: 1.49 questions

b. Remember that the size of the standard deviation is related to the size of the deviations from the mean. Explain why the standard deviation of this distribution is greater than the standard deviation in Exercise 2.
The points in Exercise 3 are generally farther from the mean than the points in Exercise 2, so the standard deviation is larger. Notice there is greater clustering of the points around the central value and less variability in Exercise 2.

Optionally, draw the following on the board, and compare the diagrams to reinforce the idea.
Mound Shaped:

Uniform:

Exercise 4.
Suppose that all ten people questioned answered all four questions on the questionnaire.
a. What would the dot plot look like?

b. What is the mean number of questions answered? (You should be able to answer without doing any calculations!)
Mean: 4 questions

c. What is the standard deviation? (Again, don’t do any calculations!)
The standard deviation is 0 because all deviations from the mean are 0. There is no variation in the data.

Exercise 5.
Continue to think about the situation previously described where the numbers of questions answered by each of ten people was recorded.
a. Draw the dot plot of the distribution of possible data values that has the largest possible standard deviation. (There were ten people at the talk, so there should be ten dots in your dot plot.) Use the scale given below.
Place the data points as far from the mean as possible.

b. Explain why the distribution you have drawn has a larger standard deviation than the distribution in
Exercise 4.
The standard deviation of this distribution is larger than that of the one in Exercise 4 because the deviations from the mean here are all greater than or equal to the deviations from the mean in Exercise 4.

Note for Exercise 5(a): The answer to this question is not necessarily obvious, but one way to think of it is that by moving one of the dots from 0 to 4, we are clustering more of the points together; the points at zero are isolated from those at 4, but by moving one dot from 0 to 4, there are now fewer dots suffering this degree of isolation than there were previously.

### Eureka Math Algebra 1 Module 2 Lesson 6 Problem Set Answer Key

Students must have access to a graphing calculator to complete the Problem Set.

Question 1.
At a track meet, there are three men’s 100 m races. The times for eight of the sprinters are recorded to the
nearest $$\frac{1}{10}$$ of a second. The results of the three races for these eight sprinters are shown in the dot plots below.
Race 1

Race 2

Race 3

a. Remember that the size of the standard deviation is related to the sizes of the deviations from the mean. Without doing any calculations, indicate which of the three races has the smallest standard deviation of times. Justify your answer.
Race 3 has the smallest standard deviation because several race times are clustered around the mean.

b. Which race had the largest standard deviation of times? (Again, don’t do any calculations!) Justify your answer.
Race 2 has the largest standard deviation because the race times are spread out from the mean.

c. Roughly what would be the standard deviation in Race 1? (Remember that the standard deviation is a typical deviation from the mean. So, here you are looking for a typical deviation from the mean, in seconds, for Race 1.)
Around 0.5–1.0 second would be a sensible answer.

d. Use your calculator to find the mean and the standard deviation for each of the three races. Write your answers in the table below to the nearest thousandth.

e. How close were your answers for parts (a)–(c) to the actual values?
Answers will vary based on students’ responses.

Question 2.
A large city, which we will call City A, holds a marathon. Suppose that the ages of the participants in the marathon that took place in City A were summarized in the histogram below.

a. Make an estimate of the mean age of the participants in the City A marathon.
Around 40 years would be a sensible estimate.

b. Make an estimate of the standard deviation of the ages of the participants in the City A marathon.
Between 8 and 15 years would be a sensible estimate.

A smaller city, City B, also held a marathon. However, City B restricts the number of people of each age category who can take part to 100. The ages of the participants are summarized in the histogram below.

c. Approximately what was the mean age of the participants in the City B marathon? Approximately what was the standard deviation of the ages?
Mean is around 53 years; standard deviation is between 15 and 25 years.

d. Explain why the standard deviation of the ages in the City B marathon is greater than the standard deviation of the ages for the City A marathon.
In City A, there is greater clustering around the mean age than in City B. In City B, the deviations from the mean are generally greater than in City A, so the standard deviation for City B is greater than the standard deviation for City A.

### Eureka Math Algebra 1 Module 2 Lesson 6 Exit Ticket Answer Key

Question 1.
Use the statistical features of your calculator to find the mean and the standard deviation to the nearest tenth of a data set of the miles per gallon from a sample of five cars.

Mean: 25.1 miles per gallon, to the nearest tenth
Standard Deviation: 1.7 miles per gallon, to the nearest tenth

Question 2.
Suppose that a teacher plans to give four students a quiz. The minimum possible score on the quiz is 0, and the maximum possible score is 10.
a. What is the smallest possible standard deviation of the students’ scores? Give an example of a possible set of four student scores that would have this standard deviation.