Helping the community is something that everyone should
consider, because the more people who become aware of how
drinking and driving affects our citizens, helps us as well as our
neighborhoods and also helps ensure safety. If we don’t work as
a team to become more aware of what’s going on then there
isn’t any hope in keeping our roads well equip.
DWI Arrest
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
DWI Arrest
2003
2004
2005
2006
Interview with Garry Morgan:
 Q:During which holidays / months/ people caught drunk driving in 2007?
 A:A little more during the summer time but pretty much the same all year.
 Q:How many of those individuals would you say are minors?
 A: About 30% or more of those were taken in.
 Q:What are the main effects drunk driving has on an individual?
 A:In Benton County there have been at least 3 fatalities in the last year or so and many
more injuries.
Interview with Jerry Friend:
Q:How many people are killed in Drunk driving accidents in a years time?
 A:Around 63 % of automobile drivers.
 Q:What time of year would you say is the worst time for pulling over drivers
 A:When Jerry Friend graduated around 1996 the different times of the year were pretty
even.
 Q:Do you feel the problem of drunk driving is increasing or decreasing?
 A:Increasing.
 Q:Do feel that Benton County’s Drunk driving accidents would increase or decrease if it
became a wet county?
 A:Wouldn’t effect it.
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Q:How do you feel that we as members of the community can help decrease
the affects of drunk driving?
A:By educating the drivers about the dangers on drunk driving.
Q:Have you worked with any local outreach programs located in Benton
County?
A:No.
Q:Do you know of anyone you could recommend me to contact for similar
information for drinking and driving information?
A:MADD
Q:Since my group is focusing on the Benton County district of Arkansas
for this project where would be a good place to receive data/ statistics on
Drunk Driving within 5 years?
A: Benton County Police Department and Siloam Springs Police Department.
Q:What’s your opinion on this topic? Do you feel this project idea will
make a difference for the local community?
A:He feels that it Is a crucial topic. Yes
Q:Since this project is for math class how do you think we could interpret
the data (statistics) on a graph to show the increase or decrease of drunk
driving in Benton County.
A:A Bar graph to show the increase and decrease of the effects on drunk
driving.
•Red coded statistics are estimated predictions of “Bentonville’s DWI & DUI Arrests”.
•The equation of a line we calculated on the TI-83 Plus Calculator is: Y= 12x23904.
•Our group used the original formula Y=ax+b to come up with “OUR” equation. We
used the assignment titled Construction of Linear Regressions From Data to help us
construct our group’s graph for the statistics of Bentonville’s DUI & DWI Arrests.
•By constructing a graph we can illustrate the amount of casualties that happen
throughout a year’s time because of “Drunk Driving”!
2003
140
2004
120
2005
180
2006
160
2007
180
2008
192
2009
204
2010
216
DWI Arrest in Bentonville
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DWI Arrest in
Bentonville
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Feb.11 - Group met to critique proposal
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Feb.12- Proposal Due
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Feb.14- Nadia met with D.Phillips
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Feb.16- Nadia interviewed former officer Jerry Friend
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Feb.21-Group presented initial Power Point
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Feb.26- Rodney Pinos presented Power Point
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Mar. 1&2 – Group meeting discussed graded project componets
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Mar.17-21- Spring Break
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Mar.27- Group met in student center
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Apr.3- Brittany and Nadia met in the student center
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Apr.11- Brittany emailed Nadia progress of project
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Apr.14- Brittany and Nadia spoke on the phone about updates
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Apr. 17 – Group met in student center
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Apr.22- Nadia went and met with D. Phillips in the East lab to post data on web
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Apr. 25- Met in Student center to discuss what final touches needed to be done
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Apr.28- Group met to finish to put final touches on East project
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Apr.29- Group kept in touch over the phone to make sure everything has been taken care
of. Nadia sent Brittany an email with the “Graph information”. Brittany finnished the
powerpoint and sent it to D.Phillips to add to the website.
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Apr.30- Nadia looked over the power point and fixed it up and sent Diane Phillips a copy
to put into the website.
 Nadia(Group
leader)- Did most written work
and organized group meetings. Interviewed
with former officer Jerry Friend.
 Brittany- worked on power point helped
organize group meetings, and ran errands for
project. Interviewed with Bentonville police
to gather info for chart
 Rodney- Changed data to needed formats
helped with some of the written work.
Interviewed with Bentonville police
 PowerPoint
 Microsoft
word
 Phones
 Computer
 Internet
 Personal
Interviews
 Bentonville
Police
 Dianne Phillips
 Marjorie Whitmore
 Former officer- Jerry Friend
 Officer – Garry Morgan
As a whole the group has developed
better:
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Communication skills
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Organizational skills
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Gathering information
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Team work
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Got things accomplished by working within the community.
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Working with the police department.
Special
thanks to Dianne
Phillips (EAST facilitator) and
Marjorie Whitmore (Math
prof.)!!
 Bentonville
Police – Garry Morgan
 Dianne Phillips (EAST facilitator)
 Former officer- Jerry Friend
 Mrs. Whitmore (Math Prof.)
 Graphing Linear Regressions
Group members:
Brittany Eaton
Rodney Pinos
Nadia Haydar