Applicable Fall 09 Exam 1 Solutions

Note: In the Fall 2009 semester, Dr. Thompson used a ttable that differs slightly from
the one given at the review. These solutions reflect the usage of the ttable that
accompanies this particular exam.


1.
Answer: (D)

The question reports that Q1 = 66 and Q3 = 74

Therefore, to conduct an outlier check, we must compute the fences i.e.

lower fence = Q1 1.5(IQR) = 66 1.5(74 66) = 54

upper fence = Q3 + 1.5(IQR) = 74+ 1.5(74 66) = 86

Of course, this question just wants the lower fence i.e. 86


2.
Answer: (C)

As per the previous question, we have an upper fence of 86 and a lower fence of 54.

Therefore, we have two low outliers i.e.

52
53
62
63
63
64
64
66
66
67
67
68
69
69
70
70
71
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72
72
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73
73
73
73
73
74
74
75
75
75
76
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78
81
82

3.
Answer: (A)

The formula for the appropriate number of intervals is k = 1 + 3.3log(n) = 1 + 3.3log(36) =
6.13, thus we should use 6 or 7 intervals.

However, ALL answer choices show 7 intervals, the width should be

Max Min 82 52
=
= 4.3 5
# intervals
7

A Good The width is consistent with the formula and all intervals contain data.
Perfect.
B No Good The width is NOT consistent with the formula i.e. we are supposed to
round UP.
C No Good Even though the width seems a bit much, its passable. However, if we
go up to the last bin i.e. 48 + (7)(6) = 90, we know that the last bin goes from 84 to 90.
Since there are no data in this range, this bin is empty.
D No Good Much as a width of 5 is good, the first bin of 55.1 to 60 misses the first
few data values i.e. 52 & 53.


4.
Answer: (C)

As we can see, there are 7 players below 66 inches i.e.

52
53
62
63
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64
64
66
66
67
67
68
69
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70
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71
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72
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73
73
73
73
73
74
74
75
75
75
76
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78
81
82

x 7
p= =
= .194
n 36

SE =

p(1 p)
n

.194(1 .194)
36

= .066

5.
Answer: (D)

As per the formula sheet, when making a CI for the median, we use the .4n 2 rule i.e.

.4(36) 2 = 12.4 12

Therefore, to make the interval, we take the 12th smallest and 12th largest values.
However, since the question only wants the lower value, we will take the 12th from the
bottom

52
53
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66
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73
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73
74
74
75
75
75
76
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78
81
82

Therefore, the lower endpoint of the interval is 68.


6.
Answer: (E)

As per the solution to #5, we will take the 12th value from the top i.e.

52
53
62
63
63
64
64
66
66
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78
81
82

Therefore, the upper endpoint of the interval is 73.



7.
Answer: (E)

Since we are given both ticket prices in each city, the data values must be paired.
Therefore, we only care about the mean and standard deviation of the differences i.e.

s
SE = d
= 5.3
= 15.9
nd
9

8.
Answer: (C)

Since we are told to disregard the answer in question #7, lets use the new SE along with
df = nd 1 = 9 1 = 8 using the truncated t-table


80%
90%
95%
98%
99%
Clevel

df





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6 to 10 1.397
1.860
2.306
2.896
3.355

So, the resulting confidence interval is

d t*

sd
nd

d t * SE

4.56 + (1.860)(4.00) 2.88 to +12.00

Since the interval does include 0, we conclude that there is NO significant difference in
the prices of the tickets i.e. they are roughly the same.

9.
Answer: (E)

As per the formula sheet, we know the formula for a confidence interval for one mean is
given as

x t*

s
n

x ME

So, lets solve for the ME using the critical t value with df = n 1 = 40 1 = 39



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df





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31 to 40 1.309
1.696
2.041
2.454
2.749

Therefore, ME = t *

s
n

= 2.041

1.101
40

= .355

10. Answer: (C)

As per the formula sheet, we know that the pooled variance is

sp2 =

(n1 1)s12 + (n2 1)s22

n1 + n2 2

(40 1)1.1012 + (60 1)1.302 2

40 + 60 2

= 1.503

Therefore, the pooled standard deviation = 1.503 = 1.226


11. Answer: (B)

We are told to assume that sp = 1.800

Therefore, we will compute our confidence interval with df = n1 + n2 2 = 60 + 40 2 = 98


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df





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61 to 100 1.295
1.670
2.000
2.389
2.659

Therefore, the confidence interval is given as

1 1
1 1
+ (5.373 6.320) 2.000 1.8 2 + (1.68, .212)
40 60
n1 n2

( x1 x2 ) t * sp2

So, this confidence interval indicates that we are 95% confident that the mean usage in
Gainesville is between 212 kilowatt hours less and 1680 kilowatt hours less than Orlando.
In other words, we believe that Gainesville usage is less.

Note: In this question, since we were NOT told what level of confidence to use, we will
use our default level of 95%.


12. Answer: (A)

As per the formula sheet, we know that the SE (incorporating the population size) is

SE =

N n

N 1

1.101 2500 40
40

2500 1

= .173

16. Answer: (B)

Since the question states that the population SD is unknown we know that we are going
to be using the tcalc.

Since the test is a one-tailed upper tail test (i.e. H1: > 20) we will draw our rejection
region with the upper tail shaded.

So, we will match our one-tailed = .05 and df = n 1 = 12 1 = 11


0.1
0.05
0.025
0.01
0.005
One Tail

df





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11 to 15
1.363
1.796
2.201
2.718
3.106

Therefore, we will reject H0 if our tcalc > 1.796


17. Answer: (D)

Note: For this question, the sample size changes from n = 12 to n = 21

From the formula sheet, we know that the value of a test statistic for one mean is

tcalc =

x 0
s

20.8 20
= 2.62
1.4
21

18. Answer: (D)

We are told to assume that our tcalc = 2.43, so we will look up this value on the t-table
with df = n 1 = 21 1 = 20


0.1
0.05
0.025
0.01
0.005
One Tail
df








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16 to 20
1.337
1.746
2.120
2.583
2.921

tcalc = 2.43

Therefore, our p-value is between 0.01 and 0.025