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Andrew’s plot of his winning values is shown below.

Did your table resemble Andrew’s plot? The more times you play the game, the more your table will resemble Andrew’s plot.

Statistically speaking, the more trials that are conducted, the trials will average to the mean of the data. Let’s look at another example to make this idea more clear since the Plinko scale is not a mathematically correct scale.

Khalid and Andrew decide to revisit data on the presidents of the United States since there are a large number of presidents in that data set. The boys decide to examine the ages of  the presidents at their first inauguration.

President	Age at Inauguration
1. G. Washington	57
2. J. Adams	61
3. T. Jefferson	57
4. J. Madison	57
5. J. Monroe	58
6. J. Q. Adams	57
7. A. Jackson	61
8. M. Van Buren	54
9. W. H. Harrison	68
10.J. Tyler	51
11.J. Polk	49
12. Z. Taylor	64
13. M. Fillmore	50
14. F. Pierce	48
15. J. Buchanan	65
16. A. Lincoln	52
17. A. Johnson	56
18. U. Grant	46
19. R. Hayes	54
20. J. Garfield	49
21. C. Arthur	51
22. G. Cleveland	47
23. B. Harrison	55
24. G. Cleveland	55
25. W. McKinley	54
26. T. Roosevelt	42
27. W. H. Taft	51
28. W. Wilson	56
29. W. Harding	55
30. C. Coolidge	51
31. H. Hoover	54
32. F. D. Roosevelt	51
33. H. Truman	60
34. D. Eisenhower	62
35. J. F. Kennedy	43
36. L. Johnson	55
37. R. Nixon	56
38. G. Ford	61
39. J Carter	52
40. R. Reagan	69
41. G. H. Bush	64
42. W. Clinton	46
43. G. W. Bush	54
44. B. Obama	47

Khalid and Andrew will be using their graphing calculator to generate a histogram. The steps that Khalid and Andrew  follow to construct a histogram using a graphing calculator are shown below.  Produce the same histogram on your graphing calculator by following the given directions.

• Enter the data into your graphing calculator. Be sure to include President Obama.

• Turn on the first STAT PLOT and select the histogram icon.

• Adjust the WINDOW as shown.

• GRAPH the histogram.

 

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