Rollercoasters
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Mathematical Enquiry I am going to be completing a statistical investigation from some collected data. This will be obtained from a World Rollercoaster Database. The information that can be seen from the database about an individual rollercoaster is: which country designed it, when it opened, its height, its length, its max speed, the ride time, and the thrill factor out of 10. I am going to investigate whether the fastest rides are the most exciting. I would like to answer this question during the course of the investigation. Hypothesis I will use the rollercoaster database to answer the following question: "Is it true that the fastest rides are the most exciting?" The aim of the investigation is to answer this question. Here is a list of possible hypotheses: a) Faster rides are the most exciting. b) There is a relationship between the max speed of rollercoaster's and their thrill factor, although the correlation is not consistent. c) Faster rides...

