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STAT130: Introduction to Statistics Semester 2, 2019 Test 1 Duration: 90 minutes INSTRUCTIONS 1) Please shade in your student number, surname and initials on the top left side of the MCQ answer card. 2) Please fill in your surname, initials and student number in the box on bottom left corner of the MCQ answer sheet. 3) Please use an HB pencil (or a darker pencil) and shade in clearly. 4) DO NOT USE PEN. 5) Scientific calculators are allowed. 6) There will be no borrowing of items from other students 7) Ensure that you attempt all 26 questions. 8) Each question is worth 1 mark. 9) Answer ALL questions as there is NO negative marking. 10) There is a formula sheet at the back of the test paper. You may detach the formula sheet. PK2 corrections qiven during test. 1) Question 14 —> there are 2 correct answers. Pick only one , 2) Question IS—> At the end of the “story” : change “2mq" To “22mg Question 1 A large manufacturing company conducts a survey of 15% of its 80 factory sites at the end of each year to determine the cost of potential upgrades needed for each site. At the end of 2006 the survey indicated that the average amount needed for upgrades was R780 000 per site. wi of the following statements is true? a) R780 000 is the value of the population parameter. | b) 80 factories were used in the sample. | is% of So c) 15% of the factory sites will be upgraded by R780 000. | ig 1D 12 factories were used in the sample. | e) All factory sites will be upgraded by R750 000. | estion 2 Tom has a plot where he is growing plants for his biology experiment. Every Friday Tom goes to measure the height of the plants. Classify the variables as either continuous or discrete and give their level of measurement. i) Number of plantsinhisplt The types of plants intheplot omni a\ )Theheight of the plants Conti UOU Src ® i} discrete, ratio“ i) discrete, nominal il) continuous, ratio“ ) i) continuous, interval ii) discrete, ordinal iscrete, ratio ¢) i) discrete, nominal i) discrete, ratio continuous, ratio d) i) discrete, ratio _~ _ i) discrete, nominal ~ iii) continuous, interval ~ e) i) discrete, ratio —~ il) continuous, ratio » i Question 3 Which of the following statements is false? a) Choosing an appropriate sampling method is vital for finding unbiased estimates of population parameters. | The sample statistics calculated in designed experiments are always good estimate: of population parameters. | J ) In both quota sampling and stratified sampling the items in the sample are grouped according to a/some characteristic(s) of importance. | J d) Quota sampling is not a probability sampling method. / e) In simple random sampling each sample of a specific size (n) has the same probability of being selected. | ~€ 2 expe Cronansts can be clesiredl poor and so lead to load UStinherte s. of data that can be @ Question 4 Consider the types a below: i) > Needs pumbas Wert ¢ ¢ Pc reopen . iy cla i) \pareto chart Which of the three types of graphs given above can be used to display data of the interval level of measurement? - a) (i)and b) Only (i) a Allthree ) (i) and (i) e) None of the above option: correct. Question 5 A sample of 1000 people took part in a study relating to politics. It was believed that religious background is an important factor contributing to their political views so the sample was selected using stratified sampling. Four-hundred (400) Christians and 340 Muslims were included in the sample. The remaining people were grouped as “Other religions”. The sample was selected in such a way that the proportions of people from each religious background reflected those of the population. O~ Ye HO = 260 from aoe C.26 eporhoy reper \ Questions 6 to 9 are based on the following: A random sample of 180 Stat130 students were asked how long (in minutes) they spent studying for their most recent exam. The captured data was summarized in a frequency distribution in Microsoft Excel, (Note: m, denotes the class midpoint.) P.T.O. A 8 < Cue _|Values 1 Time fi m, | freq camy 120-240 14 so |e Flex 320-360 | 25 | 300 129 | ce 9 39 4 360-480 35 420_| 74 Xo —> X: s. 540 [il 5 —> 6 Pr Question 4 7) 720-840 | 20 | rao [WO | ir iso a sa0-960 | 30 | 900 [iSO | Xin Leo 9 Not a perech bell shape, but 4o Setiariel Question 6 . Bo I bell shaped The shape of the data is J a) Positively skewed = 2.0 v1 b) Bimodal | Bell shaped lof | Negatively skewed e) rectangular 4,— 120 240 360 480 bo 720 840 Teo Question? |, | ) 4 X60 = 240 No ANSWER Co Onins What is the probability that a randomly selected student spent more that! 4 hours but less than 8 hours studying for the exam? > XO = LBC MINS a) 0.980 8) 0585 Problems 240 mins Ghrs) lies en a boundary. An 6) 0833 values that equal 240 mins. are peli 3 0.666 the “laraer” clas .Here it is the 2” " However! we want 4he Dbobility 0 tele “more than" 24o minS: noe ‘ie, selon cess Qu we don't know how man 2s values — actually equal 240, Solve can’t find an Which of the following commands should be lea if icrosoft Excel isto beusedto a) SWwer> calculate the approximate average time spent studying? a) = AVERAGE (€2:€8) b) : UMPRODUCT ( C2: C8 ; B2: BB) / SUM ( B2:B8 ) sy, study less han 26% stud mole a a tO “x — = a 120 Wo Question 9 & Thirty-five percent (35%) of the students ts spent m more than x minutes studying for the Stat130 exam. What is the value of ¥? > 1 ercentile . Percentiles always 8 Give arch ercentace, to the left mak 2) x= 600 So “looking for {Res / not Pas b) x= 609 ns | = AL = WeXES) ~ 5 < position of Re. So lo ) x= 738 aS @ x= 610 Re the value “29” e) x=720 e~¢ (alt y lie Bes = Lit Stoo 7 fess bt0 oo FiNgae uestions 10, 11 and 12 are based on the following: The owner of a small chain of restaurants is deciding whether or not to change the number of poultry, vegetarian and beef meals on the menu at his restaurants. He recorded the number of poultry, beef and vegetarian meals ordered each day for the last three months. Question 10 divide (Forward sash multiply ‘The number of poultry meals ordered each day for asample of 14 days is given below. by me sample std dey aves se i ——- pees 85 ~ «fe =STOEV. $[82:H3)/AVERAGE{B2:13)*100 A B c Do E F G H 1 Poultry: 2 93. 62 85 50 71 66 73 3 42 94 52 81 93 26 49 4 2 Ce 6 False ir is ? - Which of the following statements is false? _— ahs iS the std ev. ‘The variance of the number of meals is 21.16. b) The range of the data is68.) = 4 ©) The value being calculated in the active cell (BS) is the coefficient of variation (CV). d) The average number of meals is 66.93. e) Ononly3 of the days fewer than 50 poultry meals were ordered. Q 25%, of smallest values x Question 11 5 fas The days on which only a few poultry meals are ordeted are referred to as slow days. What is the maximum number of poultry meals sold on the “slowest” 25% of days? If the owner uses Microsoft Excel to do this calculation, which of the following commands can he use? a) = PERCENTILE. EXC ( B2:H3 28) () = quarrie.exc (82:03 ;1)— ¢) = QUART (B2: H3 ;0,25) * d) = QUARTILE ( B2:H3;25 om ’ e) = PERCENTILE (82: H3 0,25) 2 EXC Notes varian(e Was calculated bur the sualindt 2 eke splayed ae The restaurant owner would like to compare the number of beef and vegetarian meals. ©) || ordered. The number of beef and vegetarian meals ordered on 10 randomly selected days. was entered into Microsoft Excel and the mean and variance was calculated for each (s) sample. The information is shown below. A Bjci|o;e|tryeiunit sik 1 Negetarian | 49 | 53 | 61 | 57 | so | a8 | 66 | 61 | 5a | 56 2 Beef a7) 35 | 30 | a | 29 | as | aa | 37 | 40 | 33 3 4 Vegetari 5 555 358 6 S= 587 S= 5,20 Which of the following statements is true? x a) The CV for the vegetarian data is 62% and the CV for the beef data is 75.5% meaning that the beef data is more variable than the vegetarian data. — b) The standard deviations for both samples are similar meaning that the vz both sampleswillbesimila, = ¢)_ The range for the vegetarian data is larger than that of the beef data meaning that the vegetarian data is more variable. | d) The variability of the two data sets cannot be calculated because beef is a meat product and vegetarian meals contain no meat. | The CV for the vegetarian data is 10.6 % and the CV for the beef data is 14.5% meaning that the beef data is about one-and-a-half times more variable than the vegetarian data. | Question 13 Which of the following statements is true? a) The mode is used only for qualitative data. ~ b) For positively skewed data that has large-valued outliers, the mean is better than the median as a measure of central location. | For symmetric data the mean and median will always be equal. d) The standard deviation is found by dividing the interquartile range by two. | €) Allofthe above statements are false. 15 (bees op on 8 ue ) Question14 Two correct answers ‘A group of children were each given the same puzzle and were asked to do it as quickly as. possible, The times (in minutes) for the boys and girls are summarized in the box plots below. A the bo’ vow ve slower than at least half the qi \ of GIRLS ) ! Lif 1 <1 ++ +: +—+ te an 61 62 63 G4 65 66 67 && 69 70 7 72 73 74 75 76 AN the girls er than hat i boys whe tock wore than ne thai Which of he forancing Sokemenad e? CF minS were slower T a the qicls) ®@ The ranges for the boys and girls are the same meaning that there are an equal number of boys and girls. b) All the girls were faster than half the boys. The range for the boys is 8 meaning that 8 boys did the puzzle. All the boys were slower than at least half the girls. e) It can be deduced that the average time for the girls is faster than that of the boys. have “in gener er times

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