STAT213 Worksheet #1

 

1)      Monthly revenues for a sample of 30 companies are as follows in units of $10,000:

4.5

4.8

5.3

5.9

4.6

4.8

4.9

5.2

4.1

5.8

4.6

4.9

5.1

5.3

3.8

3.9

2.8

6.4

4.7

7.1

7.8

7.3

2.9

3.2

4.9

5.2

4.5

6.2

5.7

4.3

Form a stem and leaf plot with a leaf unit of 0.1

2)      Using a class width of 1, create a frequency table.

3)      What percentage of the companies have monthly revenues below $40,000 (16.67%)

4)      What percentage of the companies have monthly revenues of $50,000 or more? (43.33%)

5)      Using the same class width of 1, construct a bar chart of the data using a frequency scale. Does the data appear bell-curved? (the data appears bell-curved)

6)      Compute the mean, standard deviation and median of the data, rounding to the nearest dollar. (mean = 50,167; standard deviation = 11,832; median = 49,000)

7)      Compute Pearson’s coefficient of skewness. If we use the criterion that the data is symmetric if the magnitude of the skewness is less than 0.5, is the data symmetric? (cs = 0.2958; the data is symmetric)

8)      Construct a box plot of the data. Does the data contain any outliers? (q1=4.5; q3=5.7; 7.8 is a mild outlier)

 

A focus group with 15 respondents asked how many TV shows per week they watched. These were the results:

7

11

11

6

10

9

15

11

10

10

15

10

14

11

32

9)      Form a stem and leaf plot with a stem unit of 10. (see key)

10)  Using a class width of 4, create a frequency table. Use 6-9 as the first class. (see key)

11)  Using the same class width of 4, construct a polygon of the data using a relative frequency scale. (see key)

12)  Compute Pearson’s coefficient of skewness. What is the degree of skewness? (cs = 0.5624; slightly skewed right)

13)  Does the data contain any outliers? (32 is an extreme outlier)

14)  What is the mode? (10 and 11)

15)  What is the range? (26)

16)  If the outlier is removed, show why the mean is affected more than the median. (see key)

17)  Based on the results of a survey, a frequency table was made of the amount that household spend per week on groceries:

Class

Frequency

Percent

Cum. %

50 to less than 100

46

9.20%

9.20%

100 to less than 150

151

30.20%

39.40%

150 to less than 200

202

40.40%

79.80%

200 to less than 250

91

18.20%

98.00%

250 to less than 300

10

2.00%

100.00%

Compute the group mean and group standard deviation. Round to the nearest cent. (mean = 161.80; standard deviation = 46.48)

 

From the textbook:

Section 2-2 Q5-12 (page 39) Round the accuracy to 3 decimals to match the solutions in the back of the textbook.

Section 2-4 Q1-4 (pages 66-67) Note: midrange = (highest value + lowest value)/2

Section 2-5 Q1-4 (pages 83-84)

Section 2-6 Q17-24 (page 96) Note that Table 2.9 is on page 91.

Section 2-7 Q12 (page 105)