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a.

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b.

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c.

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2014 Fall Probability & Statistics Mid-term Exam

1.

You selected random sample of 48 batches of 500 computer chips and counted how many in each batch were defective. Your
data has values that vary from 12 to 57. If you want to construct the frequency distribution, you need to have ________
classes and the proper width of each class is ________. If you start first class with 12, the upper limit of final class is
___________ and the lower boundary of fourth class is ___________.

2.

______________________________ is the best chart for data on the monthly seasonally adjusted civilian
unemployment rate for the United States from 2001 to 2011.

3.

The main principle behind the Pareto chart is the ability to separate the ____________________ from the
____________________.

4.

When your interest of study is to know purchasing habit of dog owner, if you make the survey question What is the hair
color of your dog, you are making __________________________ survey error.

5.

The total SAT score achieved by a student is an example of a _____________________ scaled variable.

6.

Most analysts focus on the cost of tuition as the way to measure the cost of a college education. But incidentals, such as
textbook costs, are rarely considered. A researcher at Colleen University wishes to estimate the textbook cost of
freshmen students at Colleen. To do so, she monitored the textbook cost of 380 freshmen students and found that their
average textbook cost was $750 per semester. Information obtained from the sample will be used to draw conclusions
about the true population ________________________________.

7.

There are six steps to design the statistical study. The fifth step is
_____________________________________________________________________________________. The
example of the step is using ____________________________________________________________.

8.

The percentage polygons are plotted at the ___________________________________of class groupings.

9.

You have collected information on the consumption by the 15 largest coffee-consuming nations. The first thing you need to
do is organizing the collected data. The best way to organize the data is _________________________________.

10. Starting salaries for the 667 MBA graduates from the University of Chicago Graduate School Of Business increased 8.5%
from the previous year. The main variable is _________________________________. The 8.5% shows
________________________.
11. What is the limitation of mean and range? What is the way to overcome the limitation of mean? What is the way to
overcome the limitation of range?

12. What is the advantage of mode?

13. Explain why salary might be considered either discrete or continuous?

14. There are five different ways of data collection. Choose three of them and give example of each ways of data collection.

15. Tom randomly selected 6 days and recorded the daily high temperature during January.
9

-18

-12

-28

(a) Provide the measurement for central tendency using three methods.

(b) Calculate the range and interquartile range. Which one is better? Why?

(c) Calculate the standard deviation.

(d) Provide Five Number Summary and determine the shape of the distribution using Five Number Summary (you should use
three tests)

16. The frequency distribution below represents the rents of a sample randomly selected federally subsidized apartments in
Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Rent in $

Relative Frequency

335

361

0.04

362

388

0.35

389

415

0.26

416

442

0.1

443

469

0.17

470

496

0.08

(a) What is the midpoint and upper boundary for fourth class?

(b) If 1,200 apartments were randomly sampled, how many apartments rent for less than $389 or at least $443?

(c) If 522apartments rent for less than $362 or at least $443, how many apartments rent for at least $389 but less than
$470?

(d) What is the cumulative relative frequency for the apartments renting for less than $416?

17. Both Natural health food store and Native health food store sell the vitamin supplements. You are considering purchasing
one of the stores, and your most concern is stable sales. You got the statistical data for both stores. Which store will you
purchase? Why?

Native health food

Natural health food

Mean
47.48
59.78

Median
26
49

Mode
50
67

Range
476
497

Standard deviation
77.92
60.09

18. Grade points are assigned as follows: A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, and F = 0. Grades are weighted according to credit hours. If
a student receives an A in a four-credit class, a B in a four-credit class, a B in a four-credit class, a C in a three-credit
class and an A in a two-credit class, what is the students grade point average?

19. The survey was conducted to see the opinions of a sample of 200 MIU students broken down by gender about the plan to
eliminate Christmas Party.

48% of students are males.

27% of the students were female students who were neutral to the plan.

30% of students were against the plan.

37.5% of the male students were neutral to the plan.

20% of the students who were against the plan were females.
Agree

Neutral (do not have

specific opinion)

Against

Female
Male
Totals

a)

____________percent of the students who agreed to the plan were males.

b)

____________percent of the students were males who were against the plan.

c)

____________percent of the male students were not against the plan.

d)

____________percent of the students were not neutral.

e)

____________percent of the students were females who were not neutral the plan.

Totals

[Bonus Question] There are six different sampling methods. Choose three of them and explain briefly.