Christopher Parmentier

Homework # 1

February 9, 2014

1.
a)

ME 392 Scores (2003-2012)

120.0
100.0
80.0
60.0

Amount of Students Reveiving Grade

40.0
20.0
0.0

Grade Intervals

b)

Discrete Probability Distribution

Six Hundred fourty Six Occurances
0.200000
0.150000
0.100000

Probability

0.050000
0.000000

Grade Intervals

c) The mean of the ME 392 grades from 2003-2012 is 76.0, with a standard deviation of 13.2.

e) The numbers between the expected and estimated percentages were very close. They only were
off by 2-5% for the first and second standard deviations, but they were exact for three standard
deviations.
2. a).

Stress- Strain Curve

700
600
500
400

Stress (MPa)

300
200
100
-0.02

0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08

0.1

0.12 0.14 0.16

Strain

b).
x
x^2
xy/n
x^2 / n
y^2/n

0.076865
8.94332E-05
13.8468864
1.03992E-06
2790907.52
6

49459.9853
2

135.939233
4

Sx
Sx
Sx

8.83933E-05
1.03992E-06
0.00101976
5

Sy
Sy

924756.969
1
10879.4937

y
y^2

psi

15492.5
2
3715664

xy

18.2188178
1

Sy

5
104.3048118

r=

0.48355942
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