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Exercises c2

The document contains examples of descriptive statistics exercises involving tabular and graphical displays of data. It includes frequency distributions, cross tabulations, histograms, stem-and-leaf displays, and contingency tables. The exercises analyze categorical and quantitative data to calculate percentages and distributions and relate variables.

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CHAPTER 2: Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical

Displays

Exercise 2.1:
The response to a question has three alternatives: A, B, and C. A sample of 120 responses
provides 60 A, 24 B, and 36 C. Show the frequency and relative frequency distributions.
Type of response A B C Total
Frequency
Relative frequency

Exercise 2.2:
Every year, the U.S. Coast Guard collects data and compiles statistics on reported
recreational boating accidents. These statistics are derived from accident reports that are
filed by the owners/operators of recreational vessels involved in accidents. In 2009, 4730
recreational boating accident reports were filed.
Figure 1.9 provides a bar chart summarizing the number of accident reports that were filed
each month (U.S. Coast Guard’s Boating Safety Division website, August 2010).

a. Are the data categorical or quantitative?


b. Are the data time series or cross-sectional?
c. In what month were the most accident reports filed? Maximum frequency ?
Approximately how many?
d. There were 61 accident reports filed in January and 76 accident reports filed in
December. What percentage of the total number of accident reports for the year was filed in
these two months?
Exercise 2.3:
A questionnaire provides 58 Yes, 42 No, and 20 no-opinion answers.
Type of answers Yes No no-opinion
Frequency 58 42 20
Percentage
a. In the construction of a pie chart, how many percentages would be in the section of the
pie showing the Yes answers?
b. How many percentages would be in the section of the pie showing the No answers?
c. Construct a pie chart.
d. Construct a bar chart

Exercise 2.4:
A survey of commercial buildings served by the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company asked
what main heating fuel was used and what year the building was constructed. A partial
crosstabulation of the findings follows.

a. Complete the crosstabulation by showing the row totals and column totals.
b. Show the frequency distributions for year constructed and for fuel type.
c. Prepare a crosstabulation showing column percentages.
d. Prepare a crosstabulation showing row percentages.
e. Comment on the relationship between year constructed and fuel type.
Exercise 2.5:
Consider the following frequency distribution.
Class Frequency
10–19 10
20–29 14
30–39 17
40–49 7
50–59 2
a, Construct a cumulative frequency distribution and a cumulative relative frequency
distribution.
b, Construct a histogram for the data
Exercise 2.6:
Consider the following data on the number of hamburgers sold by a fast-food restaurant
for each of 15 weeks:
1565 1852 1644 1766 1888 1912 2044 1812 1790 1679 2008 1852 1967 1954 1733
Construct A stem-and-leaf display of these data follows

Exercise 2.7:
Every spring semester, the School of Business coordinates with local business leaders a
luncheon for graduating seniors, their families, and friends. Corporate sponsorship (tài trợ)
pays for the lunches of each of the seniors, but students have to purchase tickets to cover the
cost of lunches served to guests they bring with them. The following histogram represents
the attendance at the senior luncheon, where X is the number of guests each graduating
senior invited to the luncheon and f is the number of graduating seniors in each category.

160 152

140

120

100
85
Frequency

80

60

40
17 18
20
3 0
0
0 1 2 3 4 5
Guests per Student

Referring to the histogram, how many graduating seniors attended the luncheon?
(17+152+85+18+3=275)
a) 4
b) 152
c) 275
d) 388

Exercise 2.8:
A survey was conducted to determine how people rated the quality of programming
available on television. Respondents were asked to rate the overall quality from 0 (no
quality at all) to 100 (extremely good quality). The stem-and-leaf display of the data is
shown below.
Stem Leaves
3 24
4 03478999
5 0112345
6 12566
7 01
8
9 2
Referring to Table, what percentage of the respondents rated overall television quality with
a rating of 80 or above?
a) 0
b) 4
c) 96
d) 100

Exercise 2.9:
The following are the durations in minutes of a sample of long-distance phone calls made
within the continental (lục địa) United States reported by one long-distance carrier.
1. Table 2-4:
Relative
Time (in Minutes) Frequency
0 but less than 5 0.37
5 but less than 10 0.22
10 but less than 15 0.15
15 but less than 20 0.10
20 but less than 25 0.07
25 but less than 30 0.07
30 or more 0.02

2. Referring to Table 2-4, what is the width of each class?


a) 1 minute
b) 5 minutes
c) 2%
d) 100%
3. Referring to Table 2-4, if 10 calls lasted 30 minutes or more, how many calls lasted
less than 5 minutes?
a) 10
b) 185
c) 295
d) 500
4. Referring to Table 2-4, if 100 calls were sampled, _______ of them would have
lasted less than 5 minutes or at least 30 minutes or more.
a) 35
b) 37
c) 39
d) None of the above.
5. When studying the simultaneous responses to two categorical questions, we should
set up a
a) contingency table.
b) frequency distribution table.
c) cumulative percentage distribution table.
d) histogram.

Exercise 2.10:
The table below contains the opinions of a sample of 200 people broken down by
gender about the latest congressional plan to eliminate anti-trust exemptions for
professional baseball:
TABLE 2-5

1. Referring to Table 2-5, of those for the plan in the sample, _______ percent were
females.
2. Referring to Table 2-5, of the females in the sample, ___ percent were against the
plan.
3. Referring to Table 2-5, ________ percent of the 200 were females who were
against the plan.

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