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This document contains 6 problems from a business statistics problem sheet. The problems cover topics like sample size, types of data, Pareto diagrams, frequency distributions, and stem-and-leaf displays. The problems provide data and ask students to analyze the data and answer questions about sample sizes, data types, constructing diagrams, and determining percentages.

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This document contains 6 problems from a business statistics problem sheet. The problems cover topics like sample size, types of data, Pareto diagrams, frequency distributions, and stem-and-leaf displays. The problems provide data and ask students to analyze the data and answer questions about sample sizes, data types, constructing diagrams, and determining percentages.

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BUS 273 – Problem Sheet #1

1. There are 65 students on BUS273 course section 01 among all the students from Istanbul Bilgi
University. What is the sample size? Express the different variables that explain the data.

2. Residents in one housing development were asked a series of questions by their homeowners’
association. Identify the type of data for each question.

a. Did you play golf during the last month on the development’s new golf course?
b. How many times have you eaten at the country club restaurant during the last month?
c. Do you own a camper?
d. Rate the new security system for the development (very good, good, poor, or very
poor).

3. A company has determined that there are seven possible defects for one of its product lines.
Construct a Pareto diagram for the following defect frequencies:

100 100%
90 90%
80 80%
70 70%
60 60%
50 50%
40 40%
30 30%
20 20%
10 10%
0 0%
D B C A E F G
4. A team of undergraduate business students was asked to recommend improvement to the data
entry process at the county appraiser’s office. The team identified several types of errors, such
as posting an incorrect name or entering an incorrect parcel number. The deed abstractors
were asked to keep a record of the errors in data entry that were sent to them. The fol- lowing
table is a frequency distribution of errors:

Correspondence errors Total


Posting error in name 23
Posting error in parcel 21
Property sold after tax bills were mailed 5
Inappropriate call transfer (not part of deeds mapping) 18
Posting error in legal description/incomplete legal description 4
Deeds received after tax bills printed 6
Correspondence errors 2
Miscellaneous errors 1

a. Construct a Pareto diagram of these defects in data entry.


b. What recommendations would you suggest to the county appraiser?
5. The following table shows the ages of competitors in a charity tennis event in Rome:

a. Construct a relative frequency distribution, a cumulative frequency distribution and a


cumulative relative frequency distribution.
b. What percent of competitors were under the age of 35?
c. What percent of competitors were 45 or older?

6. Consider the following data: 17 62 15 65


a. Construct a frequency distribution. 28 51 24 65
b. Construct a stem-and-leaf display. 39 41 35 15
39 32 36 37
40 21 44 37
59 13 44 56
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