MAA 161 STATISTICS FOR SCIENCES STUDENTS TUTORIAL 3
1. The following data give the numbers of car thefts that occurred in a city during the past 12 days. 6 3 7 11 4 3 8 7 2 6 9 15 a. Find the mean, median and mode. b. Calculate the range, variance and standard deviation. 2. The following data give the numbers of GIANT supermarket in 11 states as of December 21, 2003 (USA TIDAY, July 16, 2004). The data entered in that order are of CO, IL, IN, IA, LA, MI, MS, MO, NV, NJ and SD. 44 9 10 13 18 3 29 11 256 12 38 a. Calculate the mean and median for these data. b. Do these data contain an outlier? If so, drop the outlier and recalculate the mean and median. Which of these two summary measures changes by a larger amount when you drop the outlier? c. Which is the better summary measure for these data, the mean or the median? Explain. 3. Consider the following two data sets. Data set I: 4 8 15 9 11 Data set II: 8 16 30 18 22 Notice that value of the second data set is obtained by multiplying the corresponding value of the first data set by 2. a. Calculate the mean for each of these two data sets. Comment on the relationship between the two means. b. Calculate the standard deviation for each of these two data sets using the formula for population data. Comment on the relationship between the two standard deviations. 4. The following table gives the distribution of the amounts of rainfall (in inches) for July 2005 for 50 cities. Rainfall Number of Cities 0 to less than 2 6 2 to less than 4 10 4 to less than 6 20 6 to less than 8 7 8 to less than 10 4 10 to less than 12 3 Find the mean, variance and standard deviation. Are the values of these summary measures population parameters or sample statistics? 5. A sample of 2000 observations has a mean of 74 and a standard deviation of 12. Using Chebyshevs theorem, find at least what percentage of the observations fall in the intervals x 2s , x 2.5s and x 3s . Note that here x 2s represents the interval x 2s to x 2s , and so on.
6. The mean mortgage paid by all home owners in a city is $2365 with a standard deviation of $340. a. Using Chebyshevs theorem, find at least what percentage of all home owners in this town pay a monthly mortgage of i. $1685 to $3045 ii. $1345 to $3385 b. Using Chebyshevs theorem, find the interval that contains the monthly mortgage payments of at least 84% of all home owners. 7. The prices of all college textbooks follow a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of $105 and a standard deviation of $20. a. Using the empirical rule, find the percentage of all college textbooks with their process between i. $85 and $125 ii. $65 and $145 b. Using the empirical rule, find the interval that contains the process of 99.7% of college textbooks. 8. The following data give the numbers of computer keyboards assembled at the Twentieth Century Electronics Company for a sample of 25 days. 45 52 48 41 56 46 44 42 48 53 51 53 51 48 46 43 52 50 54 47 44 47 50 49 52 a. Calculate the values of the three quartiles and the interquartile range. b. Determine the (approximate) value of the 53rd percentile. c. Find the percentile rank of 50. 9. Prepare a box-and-whisker plot for the following data: 36 43 28 52 41 59 47 61 24 53 63 73 32 25 35 49 31 22 61 42 58 65 98 34 Does this data contain any outliers? 10. The following data give the recent estimate of crude oil reserves (in billions of barrels) of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Russia, Libya, Nigeria, China, Mexico and the United States. The reserves for these countries are listed in that order. 261.7 112.0 97.7 94.4 80.3 64.0 51.2 29.8 27.0 26.8 25.0 22.5 Prepare a box-and-whisker plot. Are the data symmetric or skewed?