S-ID Texting Champion

Task

A student in Ms. Smith’s class claimed that girls text faster than boys. Naturally, the boys disagreed. Therefore, Ms. Smith’s statistics class did an activity where each student calculated the average words per minute they could text. The data is recorded below.

 

boysgirls

 

1.    Sketch two side by side box plots to compare the average words per minute of girls and boys.   Make sure to include the minimum, maximum, first and third quartiles, and median. Additionally, calculate the mean for each data set.

 

2.   Why is the mean less than the median in both boys and girls?

 

3.      Compare and contrast the two box plots. What does this mean when we are comparing words per minute between boys and girls?

 

4.      If I was trying to describe the center of these distributions, would the mean or median be more appropriate?

 

5.    Based upon the data presented above, which gender texts faster? Support your answer with statistical data.

 

 

An assessment commentary and solution is on the attached document: IM problem

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