TOPIC FOR ALL 3 ASSIGNMENTS:
Security and Criminal Justice
Topic: Criminals
Incarcerated Offenders
Question 1: Compare and contrast the gender age and race of incarcerated offenders in the prison system. What does the information tell you about the typical inmate?
Topic: Criminals
Arrested Citizens
Question 2: Use data (including violent crime property crime and drug crime) to predict the number of adults to be arrested in 2010 for possession of drugs.
Assignment 1:
The purpose of the Signature Assignment is to have you work with real-life data to answer a real-life question using the tools technology and skills of MTH/219. In the first week you must develop a question that can be answered with numerical data and that spans over at least ten years. For example How has the population of the world changed over the past 50 years and when will the population be unsustainable?
In a MicrosoftWord document write the topic/question you are addressing where you plan to find your data even if it is one of the below sources and why you chose this topic. Your paper should be 30 to 45 words long. You can either choose a topic from theStudent Topics and Questions Listor can create your own. If you chose to create your own you must get instructor approval.
Here is a list of possible data sources to find your data:
You may choose to find data elsewhere but you must get it approved by your instructor. It is very important the data you collect meet the following requirements:
Assignment 2:
The purpose of the Signature Assignment is to have you work with real-life data to answer a real-life question using the tools technology and skills of MTH/219. In Week 2 you will work with the data you collected to analyze the data to draw conclusions.
Reviewthe instructional video on how to use regression in MicrosoftExcel.
Inputyour data into MicrosoftExcel(data and years).
Createa scatterplot.
Inserta linear trendline. Make sure to show the equation and the R-square value. Also make sure you label each axis and give a title to your graph. If you need help creating your visual watchHow to create scatterplot with trendline in Excel.
In the same MicrosoftExcelworksheetanswerthe following questions. Each question should be 90 to 175 words.
Saveanduploadyour Excelfile including the graphic and your answer to each question.
Assignment 3:
The purpose of the Signature Assignment is to have you work with real-life data to answer a real-life question using the tools technology and skills of MTH/219. In Week 3 you will determine the type of polynomial your data is best represented. You will use that polynomial to make a prediction about your data.
Reviewthe instructional video on how to use regression in MicrosoftExcel(if you have forgotten from Week 2).
Inputyour data into MicrosoftExcel(data and years).
Createa scatterplot.
Inserta polynomial trendline with degree of 4. Make sure to show the equation and the R-square value. Also make sure you label each axis and give a title to your graph. Then repeat this process for a 5th degree polynomial.
Answerthe following questions in the same MicrosoftExcelworksheet. Each question should be 175 to 260 words.
Saveyour MicrosoftExcelfile including the graphic and your commentary.