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Spring 2024 - STA301 - 1 - SOL

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Stat 301 solution

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Question 1: Marks: 10

A quality control manager at a poultry farm is monitoring the weight of eggs produced. The
weights of 20 randomly selected eggs (in grams) are as follows:
65, 68, 60, 76, 65, 74, 58, 56, 61, 57, 63, 64, 72, 66, 65, 67, 65, 63, 67, 67.
Find the coefficient of variation.
Answer:
The mean (average) weight of the eggs is calculated by summing all the weights and dividing
by the total number of observations:
65 + 68 + 60 + 76 + 65 + 74 + 58 + 56 + 61 + 57 + 63 + 64 + 72 + 66 + 65 + 67 + 65 + 63 + 67 + 67
x=
20
1299
x= = 64.95
20

The variance represents the average of the squared differences between each weight and the
mean.

(65 − 65) 2 + (68 − 65) 2 + ..... + (67 − 65) 2 + (67 − 65) 2


Variance = s =2

20
517
Variance = s 2 = = 25.85
20

Or

(65 − 65) 2 + (68 − 65) 2 + ..... + (67 − 65) 2 + (67 − 65) 2


Variance = s 2 =
20 − 1
517
Variance = s 2 = = 27.21
19

The standard deviation is the square root of the variance.

Standard Deviation = Variance


Standard Deviation = 25.85  5.08

Or

Standard Deviation = Variance


Standard Deviation = 27.21  5.22
Coefficient of Variation:

s
CV =    100%
x
 5.08 
CV =   100%
 64.95 
CV = 0.07828 100%
CV = 7.828%

Or

s
CV =    100%
x
 5.22 
CV =   100%
 64.95 
CV = 0.0804 100%
CV = 8.04%

Marking Distribution:

3 Marks= Mean

4 Marks= Standard Deviation

3 Marks= Coefficient of Variation

Question 2: Marks: 10

Q: At a large manufacturing company, the following is a record of the working hours that
were logged for 32 different personnel. The five-number summary should be used to check
the symmetry of the data.

13, 23, 25, 30, 33, 36, 26, 24, 23, 28, 22, 25, 26, 29, 19, 23, 25, 30, 40, 39, 36, 38, 35, 32, 31,
30, 37, 33, 27, 26, 28, 24.

Sol:

Rearrange the data in ascending order:


13, 19, 22, 23, 23, 23, 24, 24, 25, 25, 25, 26, 26, 26, 27, 28, 28, 29, 30, 30, 30, 31, 32, 33, 33,
35, 36, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
Minimum (Min): 13
Maximum (Max): 40

= 24

 n +1 
th

Q3 = 3   value
 4 
 32 + 1 
th

Q3 = 3   value
 4 
= 24.75th value
= 33

Five-Number Summary:
Minimum (Min): 13
First Quartile (Q1): 24
Median (Q2): 28
Third Quartile (Q3): 33
Maximum (Max): 40
The data appears to be non-symmetric.
Marking Distribution:

1 Mark= Minimum Value

1 Mark= Maximum Value

2 Marks= Median

3 Marks= First Quartile

3 Marks= Third Quartile

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