MACT 2222: Fall 2017

Assignment 3

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

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1. Find the 30th and 80th percentiles of the following data set,
26, 23, 29, 31, 24, 22, 15, 31, 30, 20.

2. Compute the interquartile range from the following data, 5, 8, 14, 6, 21, 11,
9, 10, 18, 2. Are there any outliers?

3. Find the first and second quintiles of the data: 52 61 88 43 64 71 39 73 51 60

4. Calculate the 3rd and 6th deciles of the data, 7 18 12 17 29 18 4 27 30 2 4 10

21 5 8.

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5. Draw the box plot of the following data and comment on its shape. 9, 28, 15,
21, 12, 22, 29, 20, 23, 31, 11, 19, 24, 16, 13.

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6. The following data represent the monthly savings (in hundreds $) of 10
families in each of 4 cities.
City 1 4 6 8 9 10 15 20 14 15 6
City 2 8 13 15 17 22 25 10 8 12 7
City 3 4 5 1 7 6 8 10 4 6 8
City 4 16 15 18 20 22 18 18 14 16 9
a. Find the interquartile range of saving in each city.
b. Plot a box plot for saving in each city. Comment on the plot shape.
c. Compare the 4 plots (the savings in the 4 cities).