This course includes recognizing the uses and abuses of every day statistics and the quality and reliability of data. Emphasis is on the interpretation of numerical and graphical representations of existing and collected data. Topics include variability, sampling and elementary design of experiments, elementary distributions, correlation and regression, elementary probability, Central Limit Theorem, elementary inference from samples and statistical significance. [Prerequisite: MAT 108 or equivalent within the past 4 years , OR MAT 097 with 12 earned credits within the past 4 years]