Problem Set No.

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MATH122a BUSINESS STATISTICS
Answer the following problems as indicated. Use the answer sheet provided for I V.
A researcher studying consumer buying habits asks every 20th person entering Publix Supermarket how many times
per week he or she goes grocery for shopping. She then records the answer as T.
1. Give an example of a question that can be answered using the methods of descriptive statistics.
2. Give an example of a question that can be answered using the methods of inferential statistics.
II. The admissions office wants to estimate the cost of textbooks for students at our university. Let the variable X be
the total cost of all textbooks purchased by a student this semester. The plan is to randomly identify 100 students
and obtain their total textbook costs. The average cost for the 100 students will be used to estimate the average
cost for all students in the university. Describe:
1. the parameter the admissions office wishes to estimate
2. the population
3. the variable involved
4. the sample
5. the statistic
III. A quality control technician selects assembled parts from an assembly line and records the following information
concerning each part:
A: defective or nondefective
B: the employee number of the individual who assembled the part
C: the weight of the part
Classify the three variables as to what level of measurement is used.
I.

IV. Classify the following as either discrete or continuous quantitative variable.

1. Number of clients entertained by a lawyer
2. Vitamin C content of fruits
3. Number of times a coin is tossed until a head appears
4. Travel time of a student from home to school
5. Volume of water consumed in a month

V. A study was conducted to determine the amount of rainfall in regions of Arizona. To conduct the study, water
gauges were placed at various locations in the state to measure the amount of rainfall in the 12-month period
from January 1993 to December 1993 through December 1993. In order to determine the location of the
gauges, a map was used to separate the state into 600 geographic regions of roughly the same size. A simple
random sample of 80 of the regions was selected from the set of 600 regions, and gauges were placed in a
central location for each of the 80 regions in the sample. At the end of the 12 month period, the rainfall
measured by the gauges was recorded to the nearest tenth of an inch as follows:
31.2 17.6 19.3 18.7 20.3 18.1 2.6
5.3
4.9
2.5
5.1
4.5
2.8
5.0
5.6
7.4
6.3
5.8
7.4
8.5
8.4
6.8
5.9
7.8
6.3
5.8
8.2
8.0
6.0
5.8
6.0
6.1
8.4
6.5
5.7
23.6 24.0 26.0 25.9 24.2 11.0 12.3
14.3 11.0 12.3 13.4 13.8 11.8 11.7 13.0 12.2 13.5 11.6 12.0 14.1 9.3
10.6 11.3 11.0 8.9
9.6
10.5 10.8 11.4 15.0 14.7 15.8 16.2 17.3 16.4
15.6 20.0 20.9 22.6 22.0 23.4 22.8 10.4 8.9
24.0
1. What is the variable of the study?
2. Is the variable discrete or continuous quantitative variable?
3. What sampling technique is used in determining the samples of the study?
4. Construct a complete frequency distribution table for the data set and answer the questions that follow.
a. What is the range of the data set?
b. What is the class size of the FDT?
c. How many of the regions have an amount of rainfall of more than 21 inches?
d. How many of the 80 regions reported an annual rainfall of 14.9 17.9?
e. What percent of the 80 regions reported an annual rainfall of less than14.8 inches?
5. Present the FDT constructed using any 2 of the 4 graphs discussed. Use a graphing paper for the graphs.
VI. Using a pie chart, show how your weekly allowance is allocated into your regular weekly expenses. You may
construct your pie chart using a computer. Use another page of bond paper for this.

Problem Set No. 1

MATH122a BUSINESS STATISTICS
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