Class Survey - Lab Section 2

 

1. How tall are you, to the nearest inch?

 

2. In six tosses of a fair coin, select your choice for the more likely outcome, if any:

HHTHTT   HHHHHH   Equally Likely  

 

3. Are you Male or Female ?

Male   Female  

 

4. Compared to other students at this school, would you say that as a driver you are:

  Better than average   Worse than average   Average  

 

5. How much do you weigh, to the nearest pound?

What is your ideal weight, to the nearest pound?

 

6. Is the diameter of the moon:

  More than 3,000 miles   Less than 3,000 miles  

 

7. How many minutes in an average week do you spend exercising?

 

8. Suppose 1 in 1,000 people have a disease. A test for it has a 10% false positive rate and a 10% false negative rate. If someone tests positive for the disease, what are the chances that the actually have it?

 

9. How many cigarettes do you smoke per day, on average? (0,1,...)

 

10. If you found a wallet with $20 in it, would you do the honest thing and return the money and wallet?

  YES   NO  

11. What do you think is the diameter of the moon, in miles?

 

12. Assign a probability to each of these occurring in the next 50 years:

  • The world will come to an end:

  • The earth will be destroyed by either a meteorite or a nuclear war:

 

13. What do you think the probability is that at least two people in this room have the same birthday?

About how many people are in the room?

 

14. How many books did you read last year for pleasure?

 

15. How much money did you earn last year, to the nearest thousand?

 

16. How many states in the US have you visited?

 

17. What is your resting pulse rate? (beats/minute)