BA 578 Assignment-1 due by Midnight (11:59pm) Sunday, Feb 2nd , 2014(Chapters 1, 2, 3

and 4): Total 75 points (You have to show your work in Essay type questions but not in T/F
or Multiple choices questions)(Send your answers with email attachment)

True/False (One point each)

Chapter 1
1. The number of people eating at a local caf between noon and 5:00 p.m. is an example of a
continuous variable.

2. An example of a nominal scale variable is the make/model of a car.

3. Credit score is an example of an ordinal scale variable.
4. An example of a nominal scale variable is the telephone number of an individual.
Chapter2
5. When establishing the classes for a frequency table it is generally agreed that the more classes
you use the better your frequency table will be.

6. The cumulative distribution function is initially increasing then decreasing.

7. A Histogram is a graphic that is used to depict quantitative data.
Chapter 3
8. The Mean is the measure of central tendency that divides a population or sample into two
equal parts.

9. If there are 9 classes in a frequency distribution then the fifth class must contain the median.
10. The sum of deviations from the mean can be negative or positive.
11. The median is said to be less sensitive to extreme values.
12. The Empirical Rule is used to describe a population that is highly not highly skewed.
Chapter 4
13. If events A and B are independent and A is not an impossible event, then P(A/B) is not equal
to zero.

14. If events A and B are mutually exclusive, then P(A/B) is a positive fraction.
15. The union of events A and B is given by all basic outcomes common to both A and B

Multiple Choices (each question carries two points):

Chapter 1
1. Ratio variables have the following unique characteristic:
A. Meaningful order
B. Categorical in nature
C. An inherently defined zero value
D. Predictable

2. Which of the following is a quantitative variable?

A. The make of a TV
B. The VIN of a car
C. The rank of a police officer
D. The price of a TV
E. The Drivers License Number

3. Which of the following is a categorical or Nominal variable?

A. Air Temperature
B. Bank Account Balance
C. Daily Sales in a Store
D. Value of Company Stock
E. The Social Security Number of a person

4. The level of Satisfaction in a Consumer survey would represent a(n) ____________ level of
measurement.
A. Nominal
B. Ordinal
C. Interval
D. Ratio

Chapter 2
5. When developing a frequency distribution the class (group), intervals must be
A. Large
B. Small
C. Whole numbers
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D. Equal
E. Mutually exclusive

6. If there are 80 values in a data set, how many classes should be created for a frequency
histogram?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
E. 8

7. Consider the following frequency distribution from Excel. What is the missing value?
Bin
584
1774.4
2964.8
4155.2
5345.6
More

Frequency
1
3
3
1
1

Cumulative %
4.00%
68.00%
80.00%
92.00%
96.00%
100.00%

A. 3
B. 10
C. 15
D. 16
E. 25

Chapter 3
8. In a statistic class, 10 scores were randomly selected with the following results obtained: 75,
74, 77, 77, 71, 70, 65, 78, 67, and 66. What is the standard deviation?
A. 21.40
B. 23.78
C. 4.88
D. 4.63
E. 214.00

9. According to a survey of the top 10 employers in a major city in the Midwest, a worker spends
an average of 413 minutes a day on the job. Suppose the standard deviation is 26.8 minutes and
the time spent is approximately a normal distribution. What are the times that approximately
99.73% of all workers will fall?
A. [387.5 438.5]
B. [386.2 439.8]
C. [372.8 453.2]
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D. [359.4 466.6]
E. [332.6 493.4]

10. When using the normal distribution (empirical rule) to obtain the bounds for a 99.73 percent
of the values in a population, the interval generally will be ___________ the interval obtained for
the same percentage if Chebyshev's theorem is assumed.
A. shorter than
B. wider than
C. the same as
D. a Subset of

11. In a hearing test, subjects estimate the loudness (in decibels) of sound and the results are:
67, 67, 70, 71, 65, 75, 69, 62, 80, 73, 67 What is the median?
A. 65
B. 67
C. 69
D. 70
E. 71

12. The numbers of rooms for 15 homes recently sold were: 8, 8, 8, 5, 9, 8, 7, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 9, 9

What is the variance?
A. 1.96
B. 1.40
C. 1.31
D. 1.14
E. 1.18

Chapter 4
13. Two mutually exclusive events having positive probabilities are ______________
dependent.
A. Always
B. Sometimes
C. Never

14. If P(A) >0 and P(B) > 0 and events A and B are independent, then:
A. P(A) = P(B)
B. P((A|B)) = P(A)
C. P(A B) = 0
D. P(A B)=P(A)/ P(B/A)
E. Both A and C are correct

Essay Type Questions (4 points each)

Chapter 2
1. Consider the following data on distances traveled by people to visit the local amusement park.
Distance
Frequency
1-8 miles
18
8-15 miles
15
15-22 miles
12
22-29 miles
9
29-36 miles
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Expand and construct the table adding columns for relative frequency and cumulative relative
frequency. Also construct the histogram of frequencies, plot the frequency polygon and the
Ogive curve using Excel.

2. Math test anxiety can be found throughout the general population. A study of 150 seniors at a
local high school was conducted. The following table was produced from the data. Complete the
missing parts. (Work step by step to solve this puzzle. Round the frequencies to the nearest
whole number.)
Score Range
Very anxious 37-50
Anxious 33-36
Mild Anxiety 27-32
Relaxed 20-26
Very Relaxed 10-19
Total

Frequency

Rel frequency
0.20

Cumulative Rel. freq.

15
21
0.30

3. The number of items rejected daily by a manufacturer because of defects for the last 30 days
are: 22, 21, 8, 17, 25, 20, 18, 19, 14, 13, 11, 6, 21, 23, 4, 19, 11, 12, 16, 16, 10, 28, 24, 6, 21, 20,
25, 5, 17, 9 . Complete this frequency table for the above data showing columns for Frequency,
Relative Frequency and Cumulative Relative Frequency and plot the Ogive curve.

Chapter 3
4. The following frequency table summarizes the distances in miles of 100 patients from a
regional hospital.
Distance (miles)
0-2
2-4
4-6
6-8

Frequency
45
25
20
10

Calculate the sample standard deviation for this data (since it is a case of grouped data with
classes, use group or class midpoints in the formula in place of X values).

5. Use the data for 30 days in Essay question number 3 above to calculate the sample
Mean, Variance and Standard deviation without grouping the data (that is, as a series
of individual values)
Chapter 4
6. At a college, 60 percent of the students are women and 40 percent of the students receive a
grade of C. About 25 percent of the students are female but not C students. Use this contingency
table.
C

Not C
0.25

Female
Male

0.60

0.40
If a randomly selected student is a female student, what is the probability she is a C student?

7. The contingency table about customers of a store who buy cigars and/or beer is given below.
Beer
Cigars
No cigar

No Beer
0.05

0.25

0.40

8. Four employees who work as drive-through attendees at a local fast food restaurant are being
evaluated. As a part of quality improvement initiative and employee evaluation these workers
were observed over three days. One of the statistics collected is the proportion of time employee
forgets to include a napkin in the bag. Related information is given in the table.

Worker
Joe
Jan
Cheryl
Clay

Proportion of forgetting Napkin when

packing Dinner
0.06
0.02
0.10
0.04

Proportion of Dinners Packed

0.30
0.35
0.10
0.25

You just purchased a dinner and found that there is no napkin in your bag, what is the probability
that Jan has prepared your order?