Numeracy 1
Numeracy 1 (MATI3006) Portfolio
Autumn 2018 (E18)
Student Name
Student ID
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Section #1- Skills Audit [30%]
Task Instructions
You are required to answer each topic, providing clear and concise answers. Where required, supply examples showing use of the said topics in real world problems. You should also provide answers to the examples you write below. The suggested word count for this section is 500 words.
Choose any number between 30 and 100. Can you create at least two different number sentences that equal to this number? (for example :
You must use at least three separate operations.
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Choose any two fractions with different denominators (e.g .Which one is larger? Show your calculations, do not convert them as decimals or percentages.
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Convert both fractions you have used above into decimal and percentages.
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Provide one real life example for each of the following
>Percentage increase
>Percentage decrease
> Percentage change
Show step by step calculations for each of your examples(questions)
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Give one real- world example(question) of reverse percentages and show your calculations to find the answer?
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Give one real- world examples each (question) of Direct and Indirect Proportions and show your calculations to find the answer?
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Section #2- Online Test with Evidence [10%]
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Section #3- Reflection [15%]
Write a short reflection (approximately XXXXXXXXXXwords) about your personal learning experience of the topics covered in this section. You may write about your learning style, lessons learnt, working in groups, and about your skills you have developed studying this module
You can use the Skills Audit above to facilitate your answer.
Section #4 [45 %]
4.1 Fill the data in the below table, follow these set of instructions:
a. Input total count of student numbers at random from the following range [200-650]
. Calculate 2018 predicted numbers using following method: 12% increase from the mean student numbers for all three previous years.
c. Calculate the Range for the number of enrolled students for all 4 years.
d. Draw an appropriate graph and comment on the data, highlighting any significant changes.
e. The number of students enrolled in the ‘Under 25’ category has increased by 15% between 2014 and 2015. Calculate how many students were in the ‘Under 25’ category in 2014.
f. Calculate the percentage change for the ‘Over 35’ category between 2016 and 2017.
g. There were 20% more females than males in 2016 under ’25-35’ category. How many male students were enrolled in the same year and category?
h. What is the ratio of total students in ‘Under 25’ category to the total population for 2017? Write your answer in a simplest form.
Student Count
2015
2016
2017
2018 (Predicted)
Under 25
25-35
Over 35
Show your calculations below, including drawing of the appropriate graph.
4.2 You are required to provide a
ief, between XXXXXXXXXXwords, summary of the information from these two graphs below. Comment on changes in student population between years XXXXXXXXXXYou may separate UG/PG students, comment on any changes and visible trends.
4.3 You decided to record number of times the bus was late during your morning commute. The table below shows the time (t) the bus you usually take, was late over the 20-day period. You are required to fill in the frequency and the calculate following:
Time (t) in minutes
Frequency
XXXXXXXXXX0 ≤ t< 5
5 ≤ t < 10
10 ≤ t < 15
15 ≤ t < 20
a) Fill in the frequency information, make sure frequency adds up to the total recorded experiment(n=20).
) Estimate average number of minutes your bus was late.
c) Estimate what would be the Median for the above data.