False ANSWER: True 31.. False ANSWER: True... False ANSWER: True 37.. In the term “frequency distribution,” frequency refers to the number of data values or measurements falling withinea
Trang 521. Suppose you are given a graphical portrayal of a relative frequency distribution of continuous quantitative datawith the following characteristics. The lower and upper limits of the data classes are identified by tick marks on ahorizontal axis. The corresponding relative class frequencies are represented by the areas of vertical rectanglesconnected to each other and positioned on top of each of these class intervals. What is such a graphical
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b. False
ANSWER: True
31. Bar and pie charts are graphical techniques for qualitative data. The former focus the attention on the frequency of the occurrences of the categories; the latter emphasize the percentage of occurrences of each category.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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b. False
ANSWER: True
37. In the term “frequency distribution,” frequency refers to the number of data values or measurements falling withineach category
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ANSWER: True
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ANSWER: True
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b. False
ANSWER: True
60. The difference between a histogram and a bar chart is that the histogram represents quantitative data while the barchart represents qualitative data
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ANSWER: True
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ANSWER: False
79. The four classes: 0 to < 5, 5 to < 10, 10 to < 20, over 20, would be acceptable for developing a frequencydistribution
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
Trang 1584. The data values plotted on a line graph are connected by drawing a straight line between each pair of successivepoints.
Trang 16ANSWER: Descriptive statistics consists of procedures used to summarize and describe the important
characteristics of a set of measurements. For example, Canada Revenue Agency reports that the meantime to file Form TP4 is 3 hours and 34 minutes
in this problem
ANSWER: Population: The lengths of stay of all the patients that the hospital has ever had
Sample: The lengths of stay of the 1000 patients sampled
92. A highway department would like to repair a certain highway during the slowest part of a day to help minimizetraffic congestion. Because it would be impossible to monitor the traffic flow on every day, the department
ANSWER: Population: All the milk packaged at this particular dairy company
Sample: The 100 selected containers of each kind of packaging
Trang 18At an elementary school of 450 students, a teacher wanted to know what each student’s favourite physical activitywas. The teacher conducted a survey of 175 randomly chosen students; the results of the teacher’s findings areshown below.
Trang 21The restaurant serves the most customers in November and December, which may be because of theholiday season. It also has a peak in midsummer and dips in the spring and fall
Trang 22ANSWER: The two lines track each other. This means as the number of visitors increases (or decreases) the
number of books checked out increases (or decreases)
Trang 23A garbage carrier would like to start charging by the weight of a customer’s garbage rather than the number ofcans. The weights (in kilograms) of 90 randomly selected cans of garbage are summarized in the chart below
Class Interval Frequency
Trang 24113. A high school volleyball coach has summarized the wins, losses, and ties of her team for the past four years in thefollowing stacked bar chart. Interpret the chart.
Trang 25A limnologist is studying an Alberta lake in October. He records the temperatures in °C for surface water takenevery other day at noon. The data are as follow: 8.5, 8.1, 7.9, 9.0, 7.7, 7.3, 7.1, 6.8, 9.2, 6.8, 6.3, 7.0, 6.5, 5.7,5.9, 4.9, 4.2, and 6.9
ANSWER: The distribution is symmetric since the left and right sides of the distribution, when divided at the
middle value, form mirror images
Weight of a Bag of Potatoes
The weight of a bag of potatoes is supposed to be 5 kilograms. Each bag may vary slightly from this standard.The weights for 18 bags of potatoes are as follow: 4.5, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 5.2, 3.9, 4.7, 4.9, 5.5, 5.6, 5.1, 4.9, 6.1,4.8, 4.9, 5.1, 4.6, and 3.5
121. Refer to Weight of a Bag of Potatoes Narrative. Construct a stem and leaf plot to describe the data
ANSWER: Leaf unit = 0.1
Stems Leaves3
456
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122. Refer to Weight of a Bag of Potatoes Narrative. What can be said about the shape of the distribution of the data?Why?
ANSWER: The distribution of the data is symmetric since the left and right sides of the distribution, when divided
at the middle value, form mirror images
Trang 26measurements at the left side and many large measurements at the right side
Trang 28The Executive Board of a popular social media website wanted to know which kinds of professional people wereaccessing their website regularly over a two-month period. To that end, a random sample from its database ofactive users was collected. The following data were recorded:
of Access per Week
211081511
Trang 29The CEO of a popular mobile app called Discover My City wanted to know how to market the mobile app by
targeting the age groups most likely to be interested in its product. To find out, a random sample of 1,750 userswas drawn from its database of participants who had been active during the previous month. The users were thencategorized into age groups. The average frequency of access per week was recorded for each age group. Theresult was organized into the following table of data:
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Trang 30its next marketing campaign? Explain your conclusion
ANSWER: No. To ignore the 40 and over age group is to ignore approximately 24.7% of the available
population. That is too high a percentage to ignore completely without risking the loss of potentialincome