MACT 2222: Fall 2017

Assignment 1

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Write your solution on the same paper. Don’t use any other papers.

1) A politician who is running for the office of mayor of a city with 25,000 registered voters
commissions a survey. In the survey, 48% of the 200 registered voters interviewed say they
plan to vote for her.
a) What is the population of interest?

b) What is the sample?

c) Is the value 48% a parameter or a statistic? Explain

2) For each of the following examples of data, determine the type.

a) The weekly closing price of the stock of Amazon.com

b) The month of highest vacancy rate at a La Quinta motel

c) The size of soft drink (small, medium, or large) ordered by a sample of McDonald’s
customers

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 d) The number of Toyotas imported monthly by the United States over the last 5 years

e) The marks achieved by the students in a statistics course final exam marked out of 100

3) Information about a magazine’s readers is of interest to both the publisher and the
magazine’s advertisers. A survey of readers asked respondents to complete the information
below. For each item identify the resulting data type.
a) Age

b) Gender

c) Marital status

d) Number of magazine subscriptions

e) Annual income

f) Rate the quality of our magazine: excellent, good, fair, or poor