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Directions:
1) You must show all work to obtain full credit for questions on this exam.
2) DO NOT round your answers at each step. Round answers only if necessary
at your final step to 4 decimal places.
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2. A tire store manager has collected data showing the number of tires of each
brand sold during the past month. A bar chart might be effective in
graphically illustrating which brands tend to sell best at this store. _______
3. One of the most effective methods for displaying the trend in the number of
traffic accidents over the past ten years is to use a scatter plot showing the
number of vehicles on one axis and the number of accidents on the second
axis. _______
4. Telephone surveys are most frequently used for political polls. The reason is
that the survey can be conducted in a shorter time span (usually over a 24
hour period.) _______
5. When students are asked to list their age and the percentage of their college
expenses that they pay for themselves, the type of data being collected is
quantitative. _______
8. A small engine repair shop tracks the number of customers who call each day.
This variable is a time series variable and also ratio level._______
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2. The Fitness Center manager has collected data on the number of visits to the
club each week for the past 8 weeks. These data are shown as follows. Which
of the following statements is most correct?
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a. Telephone survey.
b. Written questionnaire.
c. Demographic surveying.
d. Experiments.
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Part Three
Question One (6+3+3 pts):
A computer company compiled data regarding the number of interviews required
for each of its 40 salespeople to make a sale. Following are a frequency
distribution and a relative frequency distribution of the number of interviews
required per salesperson per sale.
a. Fill the missing data
0.150
[40 50) 0.025
Total
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b. If two employees, one from each group, needed 50 training hours, which
employee is closer to an average employee in his group? Explain.
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31.4 28.5 31.7 36.0 38.6 33.1 45.0 31.4 35.4 30.5
b. Which value is better measure of the central tendency of these data? Explain
c. Calculate the sample standard deviation and the coefficient of variation and
comment of the variation of the data.
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