College students and exercising Do college students exercise on their free time?

hypothesis Our hypothesis is that college students has to worry about schoolwork/homework, getting a job, exams/projects, and their personal matters, so when college students finally has free time most of them would use it to do other activities rather than exercising. We feel that exercise is important for students.

Population The population we used for our study was mainly college students , some from city tech and some other schools. We planned to stay in the range around 50 people for our sample size. We asked random college students and less of our friends to obtain data for the project.

variables Variables associated with the population: Time spent on other activities (daily) time spent on exercising (weekly) Note: the second variable is not daily because the standard exercise routine is 1 hour a day and 5 days a week *

Data collection For our data collection we used a survey from the 50 college students we asked and it wasn’t a hassle because there was only two questions asked. We asked students just by walking up to them to get their answer on a table we created. and we also used social networking sites like Facebook to help get our data. we didn’t want to focus on too many questions for our experiment and mainly focus on the questions involving the variables because we felt that the experiment would be more complex than it has to be

Experiment So we used ‘time spent on exercising’ as the x variable because anyone can say that they exercise but only for a little bit or a lot, so we want to see out of those people who spends a lot of time on other activities. The y variable will be the amount of people for each ranged time of the x variable, you will see on the graphs that is later presented (x variable on the scatterplot). ‘Time spent on activities’ is also the y variable but not for all graphs, only the combined scatterplot. This will show the link between the two questions

Comparison of tables (minutes – hour(s)) Answer selected 0 – 30mins Answer selected (represented by a number given to a person that is answering)* 0 - 30mins 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9,17, 25, 26, 30, 38, 47 Total: 12ppl 30mins – 1hr 11, 12 16, 20, 21, 33, 34, 36, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49 Total: 15ppl 1hr - 1:30hrs 7, 15, 31, 41 Total: 4ppl 1:30 - 2hrs   2hrs – 2:30hrs 14, 23, 27 Total: 3ppl 2:30hrs – 3hrs 4, 13, 18, 28, 29, 32, 35, 40 Total: 8ppl 3hrs – 3:30hrs 50 Total: 1person 3:30hrs – 4hrs 19, 24 Total: 2ppl 4hrs – 4:30hrs 4:30hrs – 5 or more hours 8, 10, 22, 37, 48 Total: 5ppl (minutes – hour(s)) Answer selected 0 – 30mins   30 – 1hr 19, 28 T:2ppl 1 – 1:30hrs 10, 15, 22, 29 T:4ppl 1:30 – 2hrs 8, 16, 17 T:3ppl 31, 36 T:2ppl 2:30 – 3hrs 20, 27, 43, 46, 48 T:5ppl 3hrs – 3:30hrs 3:30hrs – 4hrs 1, 3, 4, 5, 11, 25, 26, 32, 35, 37, 39, 41, 42, 44, 47, 49, 50 T:17ppl 4hrs – 4:30hrs 9, 13, 14, 18, 24, 34, 40, 45 T:8ppl 4:30 - 5 or more hours 2, 6, 7, 12, 21, 23, 30, 33, 38 T:9ppl

Histogram and scatterplot