1.

QUESTION

Five competitors in a contest were placed in order of merit by two different judges as follows

Judge P Judge Q

Competitor Rank Rank

A 1 4
B 2 1
C 4 3
D 5 2
E 2 4

Required

Asses how the two sets of rankings are correlated.

2. A company wants to know if the volume of goods that it sells each month is dependent on the
number of sales man that it employs. The following data has been collected for monthly sales
and the number of salesman employed.

Number of sales Sales in month

Km

12 132.5

9 98.5

16 154.3

21 201.4

16 161

Required

Calculate Pearson’s correlation coefficient for the data and explain the results.

3. The table below shows data for X and Y values.

You are required to calculate the least square regression equation Y= a + bX, and use your line of
best fit to predict the value of Y when X= 5
X Y
1 2.6
2.3 2.8
3.1 3.1
4.8 4.7
5.6 5.1
6.3 5.3