Studies and Graphs Mini-projects are designed to critically stretch your thinking, let you explore the concept, or make you look at a specific situation or related problem. By nature, they are more...

Studies and Graphs
Mini-projects are designed to critically stretch your thinking, let you explore the concept, or make you look at a specific situation or related problem.  By nature, they are more difficult than the regular exercises.
Problem 1:: Find a newspaper or magazine article, or the online equivalent, describing the results of a recent study (the results of a poll are not sufficient). Give a summary of the study's findings, then analyze whether the article provided enough information to determine the validity of the conclusions.  If not, produce a list of things that are missing from the article that would help you determine the validity of the study. Look for the things discussed in the text: population, sample, randomness, blind, control, placebos, etc. Include a link to your article with your work.  
Problem 2:: Many people try to skew the data sets when they graph them to "support" their cause.  Find a graph online that could be misleading.  Post the graph and explain why you think it is misleading to the reader.
Please type your work and turn in on time via an attachment by the due date in the class schedule.
Combinations and Probability
Mini-projects are designed to critically stretch your thinking, let you explore the concept, or make you look at a specific situation or related problem.  By nature, they are more difficult than the regular exercises.
PROBLEM 1:: Looking at different combinations of letters we can decide certain facts.  Decide how many different "words" can be formed using all the letters from the word PARSLEY (they do not have to mean anything) and how many"words" can be formed using all the letters from the word  PEPPER (they do not have to mean anything) - NOTE:the 2 answers are different because Parsley does not have repeating letters and pepper does.  Give the number of words you can form from each and how you got that number.   HINT:  If you have trouble getting started, do the excersize for the words WOW and WET to help see the pattern.
PROBLEM 2:: A new pizza restaurant is in town and wants to advertise the number of different types of pizza you can order. A typical order has crust (thick, thin, or regular), sauce (red or white), meat (pepperoni, Canadian bacon, sausage) and cheese (mozzarella, or mozzarella/cheddar mix).
· If you choose 1 item from each category - how many different types of pizza can they make?
· If you add none to the meat choice - how many different types of pizza can they make?
· If you can choose any amount (including none)of the different types of meat, how many choices are there for the meat category?  How many different pizzas will this make?
· if you were in charge of advertising, how would you use the information you know about counting to "boost" the number of types of pizza?
Type and turn in via an attachment  by the due date listed in the class schedule..