About AP Statistics...

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hi, I'm taking AP Stats right now, and I just have a few general questions (due to the fact that I have a horrible AP stats teacher..)</p>

<p>First of all, when we're doing things like finding the least-squares regression line, binomial probability, etc, our teacher has taught us to do everything on the graphing calc. So I pretty much do not know how to calculate numbers by hand for many things (not all, but many) - Is this bad for the AP exam? Should I learn all the lengthy formulas for calculating simple values, or completely rely on my calculator? I ran in to one question where I really couldn't solve it without knowing how to solve it the fairly long way by hand, and the calculator was not much help. </p>

<p>In other words, is it bad that I rely a lot on my calculator for probability values, linear regression, etc?</p>

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<p>No it is not bad. In fact, AP Stats is also nicknamed AP Learn How To Use Your Graphing Calculator at least by kids in my school.</p>

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<p>i completely agree with u trugrit…im taking ap stats right now and all we do is use our calculators and our teacher says it doesnt hurt us as long as we know a few general formulas</p>

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<p>No, it’s fine</p>

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<p>You will never have to perform a best-fit regression by hand. That would be impossible. You sound fine, no need to worry.</p>