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Jorge is waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). His wait time of 32 minutes is in the 85th percentile of wait times. Is that good or bad? Write a sentence interpreting the 85th percentile in the context of this situation.

For the following 13 real estate prices, calculate the following and determine if any prices listed below are potential outliers. Prices are in dollars. 389,950;         230,500;          158,000;             479,000;    639,000;     114,950;     5,500,000;    387,000;     659,000;     529,000;     575,000;     488,800;     1,095,000 Find quartile 1 [q1] Find quartile 3 [q3] Find the interquartile range [iqr] Find the lower boundary for outliers  [lb] Find the upper boundary for outliers [ub] List any potential outliers [out]

A young man is arrested for drunk driving after flunking a breath test for alcohol. When he comes before the judge he swears he was not drinking and argues that his car’s exhaust system was leaking carbon monoxide (CO) into the passenger compartment. This placed him in an anaerobic environment and his body switched over to the fermentation pathway, resulting in a buildup of alcohol in his blood stream. His story is ________.

A pulse-label experiment is performed on a certain human cell line, grown in tissue culture. In the experiment, radioactive deoxythymidine is added for 30 minutes as the “label” (anywhere thymidine is added will include a radioactively tagged thymidine.) The cells are then allowed to grow without radioactive thymidine for an additional length of time prior to harvest/collection. The cells are then examined for the presence of radioactive DNA in the nucleus. Cells that contained radioactive DNA and were undergoing active mitosis were counted.  Pulse-Label Analysis Image Description A graph of a pulse-label experiment to calculate the number of cells with radioactive DNA after the radioactive deoxythymidine is introduced before mitosis. Four hours after the end of the radioactive labeling, there is a sharp increase in the number of cell nuclei with the radioactive label, with 100% of the cells in mitosis showing radioactivity at the 8-hour mark. By the 12-hour mark, there has been a sharp decrease and the percentage returns to 0. Given the data, if the cell cycle in this particular cell line is 24 hours and M-phase lasts 30 minutes, how long is G1 in this particular cell line?

When data is categorized as, for example, places of residence (rural, suburban, urban), what is the most appropriate measure of central tendency?

Use this information to answer the next four questions. A pugnacious ant (Myrmecia pilosula) from Australia, named “bulldog” for its viciousness, has only two chromosomes. It carries all its genetic information in a single pair of chromosomes! Males are haploid and have just one chromosome, and when they make sperm, that one chromosome is in each gamete. (Michael W. J. Crosland and Ross H. Crozier, Myrmecia pilosula, an ant with only one pair of chromosomes, Science, 231(4743), 1278.)

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the most trustworthy types of clinical trials?

Use this information for the next two questions.  Fabry disease is an x-linked recessive disorder in which there is a defect in lysosomal function. A male with Fabry disease and a female carrier have a daughter. What is the probability (among female offspring) that the daughter will be affected?

Find my final grade by finding the weighted mean. Round to one decimal place and write your answer as a percentage.   Source             Score               Weight            HW                  72                    15%     Quiz                 80                    25% Test                 94                    40% Lab                  0                      15% Attendance      55                    5%

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