s total You are going to collect data on the distance a paper football travels w

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s total You are going to collect data on the distance a paper football travels when flicked by YOU. For this you will need a paper football (see graphic below) and a tape measure of some kind. You may work with up to 3 people on this data collection problem. What you will need to do first is create a paper football. Cut a standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper in half to create two 4.25 x 11 inch strips. Use one of those strips to create the football Did you work with anyone on this? Provide the names of the group members. If you worked alone, that is just fine a. b. (1 point) How far, in centimeters, can a paper football travel when flicked, on average? Take a guess, how far do you think the paper football will travel, on average (3 points) Choose a location for flicking the paper football. This can be inside a building or outside. Mark the starting point with a piece of masking tape. Flick the football and measure the straight-line distance, in centimeters, from your start point to your paper football. Repeat this 25 times. Enter your data into R Studio. You can do this in one of twoways: 1) create a vector that looks something like my.data

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b. If we flick the paper football with our finger, it can travel 3-4 metres based on the power of the flick

c. So once we do the procedure for creating the paper football and flick it, we get a set of 25 observarions as follows

Enter the following code in R

my.data<-c(4.65,4.8,3.42,4.6,5.85,4.95,3.42,5.75,3.44,3.19,3.54,5.13,5.42,3.05,5.09,5.66,3.8,3.23,4.29,4.09,3.65,3.09,4.63,4.09,3.41)

To find the mean, median, mode, std. dev. and quartiles, we can use the following function

my_analysis <- summary(my.data)

or we can use boxplot(my.data) to visualize the same

If we want to find the values individually then we can use mean(), median(), mode() ans sd() functions as well in R

d. Even though we are flicking the ball in the same way, slight variation in the power of the flick, and other extraneous factores like wind speed and tine imperfections in the floor will make sure that we record a different distance each time.

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