Scribd
Upload
26 views

Assignment 1 Detailed Questions

Uploaded by

ketan.weschool
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
26 views

Assignment 1 Detailed Questions

Uploaded by

ketan.weschool
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Assignment 1: Descriptive Statistics

1. Table shows data for eight cordless telephones (Consumer reports, November
2012). The Overall Score, a measure of the overall quality for the cordless
telephone, ranges from 0 to 100. Voice Quality has possible ratings of poor, fair,
good, very good, and excellent. Talk Time is the manufacturer’s claim of how
long the handset can be used when it is fully charged.
a. How many elements are in this data set?
b. For the variables Price, Overall Score, Voice Quality, Handset on Base, and
Talk Time, which variables are categorical and which variables are quantitative?
c. What scale of measurement is used for each variable?
Handse Talk
Price Overall Voice t on Time
Brand Model ($) Score Quality Base (Hours)
Excellent
Very
AT&T Good
AT&T CL84100 60 73 Very Yes 7
Panasonic TL92271 80 70 Good No 7
4773B 100 78 Very Yes 13
Panasonic 6592T 70 72 Good No 13
D2997 45 70 Very No 10
Uniden D1788 80 73 Good Yes 7
Uniden DS6521 60 72 Very No 7
Vtech CS6649 50 72 Good Yes 7
Vtech Excellent
Very
Good
2. In a Gallup telephone survey conducted on April 9–10, 2013, the person being
interviewed was asked if he would vote for a law in his state that would increase
the gas tax up to 20 cents a gallon, with the new gas tax money going to
improve roads and bridges and build more mass transportation in his state.
Possible responses were vote for, vote against, and no opinion. Two hundred
ninety five respondents said they would vote for the law, 672 said they would
vote against the law, and 51 said they had no opinion (Gallup website, June 14,
2013).
a. Do the responses for this question provide categorical or quantitative data?
b. What was the sample size for this Gallup poll?
c. What percentage of respondents would vote for a law increasing the gas tax?
d. Do the results indicate general support for or against increasing the gas tax
to improve roads and bridges and build more mass transportation?
3. The daytona 500 is a 500-mile automobile race held annually at the daytona
International Speedway in daytona beach, florida. The following crosstabulation
shows the automobile make by average speed of the 25 winners from 1988 to
2012 (The 2013 world Almanac).

Average Speed in Miles per Hour


Make 130– 140– 150– 160– 170– Total
139.9 149.9 159.9 169.9 179.9
Buick 1 1
Chevro
1 16
let 3 5 4 3
Dodge 2 2
Ford 2 1 2 1 6
Total 6 8 6 4 1 25
a. Compute the row percentages.
b. what percentage of winners driving a Chevrolet won with an average speed
of at least
150 miles per hour?
c. Compute the column percentages.
d. what percentage of winning average speeds 160–169.9 miles per hour were
Chevrolets?
4. Scores turned in by an amateur golfer at the Bonita Fairways golf Course in
Bonita
Springs, Florida, during 2011 and 2012 are as follows:
2011 Season: 74 78 79 77 75 73 75 77
2012 Season: 71 70 75 77 85 80 71 79
a. Use the mean and standard deviation to evaluate the golfer’s performance over
the
two-year period.
b. What is the primary difference in performance between 2011 and 2012? What
improvement, if any, can be seen in the 2012 scores?
5. Data collected by the Oil Price information Service from more than 90,000
gasoline and convenience stores throughout the U.S. showed that the average price
for a gallon of unleaded
gasoline was $3.28 (MSN Auto website, February 2, 2014). The following data show
the price
per gallon ($) for a sample of 20 gasoline and convenience stores located in San
Francisco.
3.59 3.59 4.79 3.56 3.55 3.71 3.65 3.60 3.75 3.56
3.57 3.59 3.55 3.99 4.15 3.66 3.63 3.73 3.61 3.57
a. Use the sample data to estimate the mean price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline
in
San Francisco.
b. Compute the sample standard deviation.
c. Compare the mean price per gallon for the sample data to the national average
price.
What conclusions can you draw about the cost living in San Francisco?

You might also like