Take home quiz

1. Classify each variable as discrete or continuous

a. Number of pizzas sold by Alberto’s pizza shop
b. Lifetimes (in hours) of 15 iPod batteries
c. Weights of the backpacks of first graders on a school bus
d. Number of bananas in a bunch at several local supermarkets
e. Blood pressure of runners in a marathon.
2. Indicate whether it is a qualitative or quantitative data and specify the scale of measurement (nominal,
ordinal, interval, ratio) Example: (qualitative- nominal)
a. Pages in the best-selling business book
b. Rankings of employees in the company
c. Temperature inside 10 pizza ovens
d. Salaries of accountants in a private company
e. Categories of magazines in a manager’s office (sports, women’s, health, men’s, news)
3. State which probability sampling method was used (SRS, systematic, stratified, cluster)
a. Out of 10 hospital in a local city, a researcher selects one and collects the records for a 24-hour
period on the types of emergencies that were treated there.
b. A researcher divides a groups of students according to gender, major field, and low, average, and
high grade point average. Then she randomly selects six students from each group to answer
questions in a survey.
c. The subscriber to a magazine are numbered. Then a sample of these people is selected using random
numbers
d. Every 10th bottle of Gatorade is selected, and the amount of liquid in the bottle is measured. The
purpose is to see if the machines that fill the bottles are working properly.
4. The following are the numbers of companies located in 20 cities: 3, 5, 8, 5, 2, 4, 6, 9, 5, 7, 3, 12, 8, 3, 8,
5, 5, 10, 7, and 6. List the 2 possible systematic samples of size n=5 that can be selected from this list by
starting with one of the first four number and then taking each fourth number on the list.
5. Among the 250 employees of the local office of an international insurance company, 182 are whites, 51
are blacks, and 17 are Orientals. If we use proportional allocation and equal allocation to select a
stratified random grievance committee of 15 employees, how many employees must we take from each
race?
6. The state gas tax in cents per gallon for 25 states is given below. Using 5 classes (k=5), construct
frequency distribution, histogram, frequency polygon and frequency ogive.
7.5 16 23.5 17 22
21.5 19 20 27.1 20
22 20.7 17 28 20
23 18.5 25.3 24 31
14.5 25.9 18 30 31.6