"Let no man ignorant of geometry enter." -- (Sign over Plato's Academy in Athens.) Euclid (c. 300 B.C.) is the "father of geometry." His major work, the Elements, formulated laws of space and properties of space that we teach in geometry today.	What did Herkimer tell Cinderella when her photographs didn't arrive on time? Answer:"Don't worry, Cindy. Some day your prints will come." Herky's friends: IVY STICKER ...a nurse. WELDON BERGER ... a cook at McDonalds.
Reading: Pages 30-42. Do exercises 1.31 (WNIB), 1.32, 1.34

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mean	nonresistant statistic	median	resistant statistic	quartiles
interquartile range	outlier (formal definition)	five-number summary	boxplot (box-whisker plot)	modified boxplot

The TI-83 can display boxplots and calculatestatistical indices mentioned in this section.

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Text:
The Practice of Statistics, by Yates, Moore, McCabe. New York,W.H. Freeman and Company, 1999. (ISBN 0-7167-3370-6)

Supplemental books:
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, by Gonick and Smith. NewYork, HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. (ISBN 0-06-273102-5)
How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff. New York, W.W.Norton & Company, 1982 (ISBN 0-393-09426-X)

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