Homework Assignment: Descriptive Statistics

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1. The owner of a restaurant that serves Continental-style entrées has the business objec-
tive of learning more about the patterns of patron demand during the Friday-to-Sunday
weekend time period. Data were collected from 15 customers on the type of entrée
ordered and presented in the following table.

Beef Beef Fish Chicken Beef

(a) [2 pts] Is this dataset categorical or numerical?

(b) [2 pts] Construct the frequency distribution table, the relative frequency distri-
bution table, and the percent frequency table.

Relative Percent
Category Frequency Frequency Frequency

(c) [2 pts] Draw the histogram of the above dataset.

2. One of the major measures of the quality of service provided by an organization is the
speed with which the organization responds to customer complaints. A large family-
held department store selling furniture and flooring, including carpet, had undergone
a major expansion in the past several years. In particular, the flooring department
had expanded from 2 installation crews to an installation supervisor, a measurer, and
15 installation crews. A business objective of the company was to reduce the time
between when the complaint is received and when it is resolved. During a recent year,
the company received 16 complaints concerning carper installation. The number of
days between the receipt of the complaint and the resolution of the complaint for the
16 complaints are:

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 10 16 22 6 18 27 11 9
21 17 12 7 19 24 5 14

(a) [2 pts] Is this dataset categorical or numerical?

(b) [2 pts] Construct the frequency distribution table, the relative frequency distri-
bution table, and the percent frequency table.

Relative Percent
Range Frequency Frequency Frequency
1-10
11-20
21-30

(c) [2 pts] Draw the histogram of the above dataset.

3. Consider the following dataset: 28, 42, 42, 48, 45.

(a) [2 pts] Compute the mean.

(b) [2 pts] Compute the median.

(c) [2 pts] Compute the mode.

(d) [2 pts] Compute the range.

(e) [2 pts] Compute the variance.

(f) [2 pts] Compute the standard deviation.

(g) [2 pts] Compute the coefficient of variation.

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4. Consider the following dataset: 7, 4, 8, 6, 3, 12, 9. The mean of this dataset is 7 and
the standard deviation is 3.1.
(a) [2 pts] Compute the z score of 9.

(b) [2 pts] Compute the z score of 12.

(c) [2 pts] Is the value 12 below the mean or above the mean?

(d) [2 pts] How many standard deviations is the value 12 away from the mean?

5. [2 pts] A dataset with a mean of 10 and a median of 30 is

(b) [2 pts] Compute the first quartile.

(c) [2 pts] Compute the third quartile.

(d) [2 pts] Compute the interquartile range.

(e) [2 pts] Provide the five-number summary.

7. Consider the follow dataset:

2, 6, 4, 9, 14, 121, 13, 7, 10, 6, 5, 21, 8.

The mean of this dataset is 17.4 and the standard deviation of this dataset is 31.5.

(a) [2 pts] Compute the z score of 21.

(b) [2 pts] Is the value 21 an outlier?

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 (c) [2 pts] Compute the z score of 121.

(d) [2 pts] Is the value 121 an outlier?

8. Consider a sample with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 6. Use Chebyshev’s

(a) [2 pts] 38 to 62

(b) [2 pts] 32 to 68

9. Suppose the data have a bell–shaped distribution with a mean of 80 and a standard
deviation of 10. Use the empirical rule to determine the percentage of data within each
of the following ranges:

(a) [2 pts] 60 to 100

(b) [2 pts] 70 to 90

(c) [2 pts] 50 to 110

10. The results of a national survey showed that on average, adults sleep 6.9 hours per
night. Suppose that the standard deviation is 1.2 hours.

(a) [2 pts] Use Chebyshev’s theorem to calculate the percentage of individuals who
sleep between 4.5 and 9.3 hours.

(b) [2 pts] Use Chebyshev’s theorem to calculate the percentage of individuals who
sleep between 3.9 and 9.9 hours.

(c) [2 pts] Assume that the number of hours of sleep follows a bell-shaped distribu-
tion. Use the empirical rule to calculate the percentage of individuals who sleep
between 4.5 and 9.3 hours per day.

11. A department of transportation’s study on driving speed and miles per gallon for
midsize automobiles resulted in the following data:

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 Speed Miles
(Miles per Hour) per Gallon
30 28
50 23
40 25

(a) [2 pts] Develop a scatter diagram.

(b) [2 pts] Compute the standard deviation of the speed (x).

(c) [2 pts] Compute the standard deviation of the miles per gallon (y).

(d) [2 pts] Fill out the following table and compute the covariance.

x y x−x y−y (x − x) × (y − y)
30 28
50 23
40 25

Covariance =

(e) [2 pts] Compute the coefficient of correlation between x and y.