Name ________________________ Date ________________________ Critical Reflection #5 – Current Events Choose a current event that deals with one of the following categories that affects the population in which you are serving: education, immigration, health care, discrimination, poverty, environment, or any other social justice issue facing people living in the United States today. Youmust find at least two separate sources that discuss this current event. These can be from any form of media (newspaper, news, magazine or journal article, etc.), but all sources must be reliable. Then, answer the following questions honestly and completely in short answer form.  Your response to EACH section of every question should be between 150-500 words. Answers that do not fulfill the minimum word requirement will NOT earn credit. Collegiate-level writing is expected, including, but not limited to, using complete sentences, appropriate punctuation, proper paragraph structure, and editing for spelling and grammar mistakes. Please cite any sources you use, and quotations are not counted in the word minimum.  Use appropriate supporting evidence for your statements. Answer each prompt question thoroughly. If you can ask "why?", "how so?", or "how do you know that?" after reading what you've written, you've got more work to do. Your answers are for your own reflection and will only be viewed by your instructor. Each question should address the information in the article, content from class, and your reflections of the material. In order to answer the questions thoroughly, you will likely have to do some additional research about your current event. Be sure to cite all sources that you use. 1. Describe the current event in detail. Where and when did/does this current event take place? What are its origins? What is the underlying issue(s) behind this event? How long have these issues been prevalent? 2. Who are the people involved in this current event and affected by this current event? What population or group of people is negatively affected by this current event? What population or group of people may be benefitting in some way from this current event? 3. What steps are being taken to resolve the issues presented by this current event? 4. Describe how this current event relates to the population with which you are working. 5. How may this event and the issue(s) surrounding it affect you and the community in which you live, either directly or indirectly? Module 2 - Case Measures of Central TendencyCase Assignment By submitting this assignment, you affirm that it contains all original work, and that you are familiar with Trident University’s Academic Integrity policy in the Trident Policy Handbook. You affirm that you have not engaged in direct duplication, copy/pasting, sharing assignments, collaboration with others, contract cheating and/or obtaining answers online, paraphrasing, or submitting/facilitating the submission of prior work. Work found.

1. Name ________________________
Date ________________________
Critical Reflection #5 – Current Events
Choose a current event that deals with one of the following
categories that affects the population in which you are serving:
education, immigration, health care, discrimination, poverty,
environment, or any other social justice issue facing people
living in the United States today. Youmust find at least two
separate sources that discuss this current event. These can be
from any form of media (newspaper, news, magazine or journal
article, etc.), but all sources must be reliable.
Then, answer the following questions honestly and completely
in short answer form. Your response to EACH section of every
question should be between 150-500 words. Answers that do not
fulfill the minimum word requirement will NOT earn credit.
Collegiate-level writing is expected, including, but not limited
to, using complete sentences, appropriate punctuation, proper
paragraph structure, and editing for spelling and grammar
mistakes. Please cite any sources you use, and quotations are
not counted in the word minimum.
Use appropriate supporting evidence for your statements.
Answer each prompt question thoroughly. If you can ask
"why?", "how so?", or "how do you know that?" after reading
what you've written, you've got more work to do. Your answers
are for your own reflection and will only be viewed by your
instructor. Each question should address the information in the
article, content from class, and your reflections of the material.
In order to answer the questions thoroughly, you will likely
have to do some additional research about your current event.
Be sure to cite all sources that you use.
1. Describe the current event in detail. Where and when
did/does this current event take place? What are its origins?
What is the underlying issue(s) behind this event? How long
have these issues been prevalent?

2. 2. Who are the people involved in this current event and
affected by this current event? What population or group of
people is negatively affected by this current event? What
population or group of people may be benefitting in some way
from this current event?
3. What steps are being taken to resolve the issues presented by
this current event?
4. Describe how this current event relates to the population with
which you are working.
5. How may this event and the issue(s) surrounding it affect you
and the community in which you live, either directly or
indirectly?
Module 2 - Case
Measures of Central TendencyCase Assignment
By submitting this assignment, you affirm that it contains all
original work, and that you are familiar with Trident
University’s Academic Integrity policy in the Trident Policy
Handbook. You affirm that you have not engaged in direct
duplication, copy/pasting, sharing assignments, collaboration
with others, contract cheating and/or obtaining answers online,
paraphrasing, or submitting/facilitating the submission of prior
work. Work found to be unoriginal and in violation of this
policy is subject to consequences such as a failing grade on the
assignment, a failing grade in the course, and/or elevated
academic sanctions. You affirm that the assignment was
completed individually, and all work presented is your own.

3. Problems need to include all required steps and answer(s) for
full credit. All answers need to be reduced to lowest terms
where possible.
Answer the following problems showing your work and
explaining (or analyzing) your results.Describe the measures of
central tendency. Under what condition(s) should each one be
used?Last year, 12 employees from a computer company retired.
Their ages at retirement are listed below. First, create a stem
plot for the data. Next, find the mean retirement age. Round to
the nearest year.
55 77 64 77 69 63 62 64 85 64 56 59A retail
store manager kept track of the number of car magazines sold
each week over a 10-week period. The results are shown below.
27 30 21 62 28 18 23 22 26 28Find the mean,
median, and mode of newspapers sold over the 10-week
period.Which measure(s) of central tendency best represent the
data?Name any outliers.Joe wants to pass his statistics class
with at least a 75%. His prior four test scores are 74%, 68%,
84% and 79%. What is the minimum score he needs on the final
exam to pass the class with a 75% average?Nancy participated
in a summer reading program. The number of books read by the
23 participants are as follows:
10 9 6 2 5 3 9 1 6 3 10 4 7 6 3
5 6 2 6 5 3 7 2Number of books
readFrequency1–23–45–67–89–10Complete the frequency
table.Find the mean of the raw data.Find the median of the raw
data. The chart below represents the number of inches of
snow for a seven-day
period.SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturd
ay25310042Find the mean, median, and mode.Which is the best
measure of central tendency?Remove Wednesday from the
calculations. How does that impact the three measures of central
tendency?Describe the effect outliers have on the measures of
central tendency.A dealership sold 15 cars last month. The
purchase price of the cars, rounded to the nearest thousand, is

4. represented in the table.Purchase priceNumber of cars
sold$15,0003$20,0004$23,0005$25,0002$45,0001Find the mean
and median of the data.Which measure best represents the data?
Use the results to support your answer.What is the outlier and
how does it affect the data?
8. What do the letters represent on the box plot?
9. The test scores from a math final exam are as follows:
64 85 93 55 87 90 73 81 86 79Create a box
plot using the data.Label the five points on the box plot and
include numerical answers from part "a."
10. Using the data and results from Question 9, answer the
following questions.What is the median?What is the range?What
is the interquartile range?In a short paragraph, describe the data
in the box plot.
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