Errata

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• p. 69, Activity 4-1: Change justice name to O'Connor
• p. 95, Activity 5-3:  Part (b) should reference Activity 4-2 on page 72, not Activity 3-7 as stated in the book.
• p. 99, should be vertical lines at each +s value
• p. 117: Table following #6 of the Preliminaries -- All About Eve was made in 1950, not 1910. Raging Bull was 1980, not 1910. Sunset Boulevard was 1950, not 1910.
• p. 148, Activity 7-4: Part (c), second sentence should refer to "fair" condition instead of "good" condition.
• p. 209, Activity 10-1: There are only 12 destinations listed in the table, not 14.
• p. 331, Activity 15-1:  The first two letters of "Find" should not be in boldface in (e).
• p. 335, Activity 15-2:  Replace the period by a question mark at the end of the first sentence of (f).
• p. 385, Activity 17-5:  The tally for the value "15" in the table should be 18 and not 28 as listed.
• p. 400, Activity 18-5:  The first probability entry in the table of (a) should be .3079 and not .0379.
• p. 402, Activity 18-6:  Question (e) should refer to question (k) and not to (f).
• p. 468,  Activity 21-12: In part (a), change "did" to "claim to have done."
• p. 479, Activity 22-4:  Insert a second sentence on (b): "Comment on the distribution."
• p. 483, Activity 22-9:  Part (d) should refer to Activity 22-1 on page 472, not Activity 22-3 on page 476.
• p. 496, Activity 23-4: In the Minitab menu picture, hypothesized value of p should be .25, not .5.
• p. 505, Activity 23-15, Second sentence in part (a) should refer to "home field advantage" instead of "home court advantage."
• p. 505, Activity 23-15, Part (b) should say 106 instead of 108 and part (c) should say 107 instead of 109. Part (d) should have a question mark at the end of the last sentence.
• p. 528, Activity 24-8:  Delete "Report these below." in (d) and "Report the interval below." in (e).
• p. 529, Activity 24-10:  Change the first period to a comma and un-capitalize the first letter of "The".
• p. 548, Activity 25-3(f):  Change "lower" to "higher".
• p. 550, Activity 25-4: Part (b)should begin "all of Moore's sentences..."
• p. 576, Activity 26-6:  The marginal totals are all wrong.  The column totals should be 388 (liberal), 440 (moderate), and 436 (conservative).  The row totals should be 802 (too little), 360 (just right), and 102 (too much).  The grand total should be 1264.
• p. 587, Activity 27-1:  The "n-1" under the square root sign in the numerator of the formula for the test statistic within the shaded box should be replaced by "n-2".
• p. 592, Activity 27-2: Part (m) should refer to (l) and part (n) should refer to (m).
• p. 597, Activity 27-8:  Delete the second "Activity" in the first sentence.