Assignment Number – 5

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Submitted To: - Submitted By:-

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Mr. John Wang Navjot Kaur

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MULTIPLE CHOICES. Choose the one alternative that best completes the
statement or answers the question.

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 1) What do the quartile deviation and the interquartile range describe? 1) _______

A) Lower 25% and the upper 25% of the observations

B) Middle 50% of the observations

C) Upper 50% of the observations

D) Lower 50% of the observations

Ans. B

2) I. An outlier is a value in a data set that is inconsistent with the rest of the data.

ii. The interquartile range is the difference between the values of the first and third

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quartile, indicating the range of the middle fifty percent of the observations.

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iii. A student scored in the 85 percentile on a standardized test. This means that the

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student scored lower than 85% of the rest of the students taking the test. 2)

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B) (I) is a correct statement, but not (ii) or (iii).

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C) (i) and (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).

E) (i) and (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).

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Ans. C
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3) What is the value of the Pearson coefficient of scenes for a distribution with a
mean of 17, median of 12 and standard deviation of 6? 3) _______
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A) + 0.83 B) - 2.5 C) - 0.83 D) + 2.5

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Ans. D
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4) A large oil company is studying the number of gallons of gasoline purchased

per customer at self-service pumps. The mean number of litres is 10.0 with a
standard deviation of 3.0 litres. The median is 10.75 litres. What is the Pearson's
coefficient of scenes? 4) _______

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 A) - 1.00 B) + 1.00 C) + 0.75 D) - 0.75

Ans. D

5) Mr. and Mrs. Jones live in a neighbourhood where the mean family income is
$45,000 with a standard deviation of $9,000. Mr. and Mrs. Smith live in a
neighbourhood where the mean is $100,000 and the standard deviation is $30,000.
What are the relative dispersions of the family incomes in the two
neighbourhoods? 5) _______

A) Jones 30%, Smith 20%

B) Jones 50%, Smith 33%

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C) Jones 40%, Smith 20%

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D) Jones 20%, Smith 30%

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6) What statistics are needed to draw a box plot? 6) _______

A) A mean and dispersion B) Median, mean and standard deviation

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C) A mean and a standard deviation

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D) Minimum, maximum, median, first and third quartiles

E) Q1, Q2 and Q3
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Ans. D

7) The printout below is a summary of the average annual earnings of male full
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time workers in Canada from 1999-2008. Determine the coefficient of variation.

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Men count 10 mean 44,700.00 sample variance 1,011,111.11 sample standard

deviation 1,005.54 minimum 43000 maximum 46900 range 3900 population
variance 910,000.00 population standard deviation 953.94 7) _______
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A) 3% B) 25% C) 2.2% D) 1.0% E) 15%

Ans. C

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 8) (I) the arithmetic mean (measure of central tendency) cannot be determined if
the distribution has an open-ended class.

(ii) The measure of central tendency used to determine the average annual percent
increase in sales from one time period to another is the geometric mean.

(iii) The smallest measure of central tendency in a positively skewed distribution is

the mode. 8) ______ A) (i) and (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).

B) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all false statements.

C) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all correct statements

D) (i) and (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).

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E) (ii) and (iii) are correct statements, but not (i).

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9) (i) The median is the measure of central tendency that uses all of the
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observations in its calculation. (ii) The mode is the class with the largest number of
observations.
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(iii) If a set of observations contains an extreme value and none of the observations
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repeat themselves, the median is the most representative measure of central

tendency. 9) _______

A) (i) and (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).

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B) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all false statements.

C) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all correct statements

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E) (ii) and (iii) are correct statements, but not (i).

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Ans. E

10) In order to predict life expectancy, a data sample is received from a local
funeral parlour. The sample includes the ages (in years) of each of the customers
received over the past few weeks. The following is the Excel summary statistics:

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 Mean 64.9 Standard Error 1.67 Median 69.1 Mode 73.7 Standard Deviation 10.6
Sample Variance 111.8 Kurtosis -0.2 Skewness -1.0 Range 37.3 Minimum 39.5
Maximum 76.8 Sum 2595.9 Count 40 Largest(2) 76.1 Smallest(2) 44.9 What is the
size of the sample? 10) ______

A) 2595.9 B) 40 C) 44.9 D) 46

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11) (i) If the mean of a frequency distribution is smaller than the median and mode,
the Pearson's coefficient of skewness would be negative.

(ii) The only time the variance equals the standard deviation is when both equal 1.

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(iii) According to the Empirical Rule, 68 percent of the observations lie within plus

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and minus one standard deviation of the mean. 11) ______

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D) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all correct statements

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E) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all false statements.

Ans. E
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12) (i) Five students were given a page of problems with the instructions to solve
as many as they could in one hour. Five students solved the following number of
problems: 12, 10, 8, 6 and 4. The arithmetic mean number of minutes required per
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problem is 7.5 minutes (average of 8 problems in an hour).

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(ii) David Electronics had a profit of $10 million in 1998. Profit doubled from
1998 to 1999 and profit increased eight fold from 1999 to 2000. The annual
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geometric mean rate of growth from 1998 to 2000 was 300% (4 fold).

(iii) The difference between the highest and the lowest value in a set of data is
called the range. 12) ______

A) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all correct statements

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 B) (i) and (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).

C) (ii) and (iii) are correct statements, but not (i).

D) (i) and (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).

E) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all false statements.

Ans. A

13) I. In a positively skewed distribution, the mean is always greater than the
median.

ii. In a negatively skewed distribution, the median occurs at the peak of the curve.

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iii. In a negatively skewed distribution, the mode is greater than the median. 13)

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C) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all false statements.
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D) (i) and (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).

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E) (i) and (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).

Ans. E
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14) The lengths of stay on the cancer floor of Community Hospital were organized
into a frequency distribution. The mean length was 28 days, the median 25 days
and the modal length 23 days. The standard deviation was computed to be 4.2
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days. Determine the Pearson's coefficient of skewness. 14) ______

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A) 2.41 B) 2.14 C) -2.41 D) -2.14

Ans. B
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15) A sample of five flooring installers, each carrying three types of flooring, was
taken and the price per square metre (to the nearest cent) was recorded for each
type of flooring, as shown in the table below. INSTALLER Flooring Type 1 2 3 4 5

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 Laminate Floor $1.27 $1.27 $1.27 $1.27 $1.27 Polyester Carpet .36 1.37 1.38 1.38
1.40 Nylon Carpet 1.47 1.49 1.50 1.50 1.59

(i) The standard deviation for laminate flooring is 0.

(ii) The standard deviation for polyester carpet is $1.88.

(iii) The range for polyester carpet is $1.04. 15) ______

A) (i) and (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).

B) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all false statements.

C) (i) and (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).

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E) (ii) and (iii) are correct statements, but not (i).

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16) The weights of a sample of 100 boxes being shipped by Air France from
Toronto to Paris are: Weights (kg) Number 50 to under 75 4 75 to under 100 16
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100 to under 125 21 125 to under 150 46 150 to under 175 13

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(i) Correct to two decimal places, the sample standard deviation is approximately
52.98.

(ii) Correct to two decimal places, the sample variance is approximately 675.25.
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16) ______

A) (ii) is correct, but not (i).

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C) (i) is a correct statement but not (ii).

D) (i) and (ii) are both correct statements.

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Ans. B

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 17) A company's human resource department was interested in the average number
of years that a person works before retiring. The sample of size 11 follows: 12 16
18 19 21 21 21 22 24 24 26

(i) Based on the values of the arithmetic mean, median, and mode, the distribution
is most likely symmetrical.

(ii) The arithmetic mean is 20.4.

(iii) The median is 21. 17) ______

A) (i) and (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).

B) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all correct statements.

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18) A telemarketing firm is monitoring the performance of its employees based on

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the number of sales per hour. One employee had the following sales for the last 20
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hours 9 5 2 6 5 6 4 4 4 7 4 4 7 8 4 4 5 5 4 8

(i) The median for the distribution of number of sales per hour is 5 sales per hour.
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(ii) The first quartile for the distribution of number of sales per hour is 4 sales per
hour.
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(iii) For the distribution of number of sales per hour, 50% of the observations are
between 3 and 7.5.18) ______
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A) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all false statements.

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B) (i) and (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).

C) (i), (ii) and (iii) are all correct statements.

D) (ii) and (iii) are correct statements, but not (i).

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 E) (i) and (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).

Ans. E

19) (i) If two sets of data are in different units, we can compare the dispersion by
using coefficient of variation.

(ii) A sample of the homes currently offered for sale revealed that the mean asking
price is $75,900, the median $70,100 and the modal price is $67,200. The standard
deviation of the distribution is $5,900. The Pearson's coefficient of skewness is
2.95

(iii) The coefficient of variation is a measure of central tendency. 19) ______

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20) Referring to the printout below, describe the shape of the distribution of the
corresponding histogram. Class Grades count 35 mean 71.8 minimum 14.3
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maximum 99.2 range 84 coefficient of variation (CV) 30.67% 1st quartile 58.25
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median 77.25 3rd quartile 89.91 interquartile range 31.67 mode 82.0 20) ______

A) Perfectly symmetrical
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B) Positively skewed
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D) Negatively skewed

Ans. D

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