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uantitative
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easoning &
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roblem
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olving
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You are recruited to be the basketball statistician for the college team. The coaches, knowing that
you are a quantitative analyst, ask you to produce analytics for the team. The coaches believe
that the performance of the players is based on productivity; therefore the sets of data include the
following:
turnovers
assists
rebounds (offensive and defensive and total)
shots taken (3 points, 2 points, and free throws)
shots made (3 points, 2 points, and free throws)
fouls
steals
defensive shooting percentage (shots
taken
against a player and shots
made
against that player)
You are to create a measure for productivity so the coaches can use it after each game to help each
player increase their positive contribution to the team’s performance, answering the question,
“How much added value did that player produce based upon their set of results?”
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Of the courses you’re taking this term, identify the most quantitative, other than this one. Use
the syllabus and reading material to find as many types of functions the course will use to model
key ideas and processes. See if you can find at least five different types of functions. For each of
the different type of functions you find, produce a report. The report should include the concept,
process, or idea; the family of functions that was used; a description of the concept using the
function; and an exploration of how the parameters of that function change based upon the
situation where the concept is applied.
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