Name: _________________________

Section: _______________________

Written Work 1 – MATH03

1. Determine if the following statement is descriptive or inferential in nature:

a. Of all U.S. kindergarten teachers, 32% say that knowing the alphabet is an essential skill.

b. Of the 800 U.S. kindergarten teachers polled, 32% say that knowing the alphabet is an essential skill.

2. Of the China adult population, 40% has shown flu-like symptoms. A sample of 1200 randomly selected adults
resulted in 35.3% reporting flu-like symptoms.

a. What is the population?

b. What is the sample?

c. What is the variable?

d. Identify the statistic and give its value.

e. Identify the parameter and give its value.

3. The admissions office wants to estimate the cost of textbooks at USC. Let the variable x be the total cost of all
textbooks purchased by a student this semester. The plan is to randomly identify 100 students and obtain their total
textbook costs. The average cost for the 100 students will be used to estimate the average cost for all students.

a. Describe the parameter the admissions office wishes to estimate.

b. Describe the population.

c. Describe the variable involved.

d. Describe the sample.

e. Describe the statistic.

4. Identify each as qualitative or quantitative.

a. The breaking strength of a given type of string

b. The hair color of children auditioning for the musical Annie

c. The number of stop signs in towns of less than 500 people

d. Whether or not a sink faucet is defective

e. The number of questions answered correctly on the SAT

Name: _________________________
Section: _______________________

6. Classify each as nominal-level, ordinal-level, interval-level, or ratio-level data.

a. Horsepower of motorcycle engines

b. TV Show ratings (poor, fair, good, excellent)

c. Time required by drivers to complete a night course

d. Salaries of cashiers at the Piggly Wiggly for day shift and night shift

e. Marital status of respondents to a survey on savings accounts

f. Ages of students enrolled in a martial arts course

g. Weights of beef cattle fed a special diet

h. Rankings of weight lifters

i. Pages in the telephone book for the city of Los Angeles

8. Compute for the following: a) mean b) median c) mode d) IQR e) standard deviation g) variance. Round your
answers into 2 decimal places. Spaces are provided for your solutions.

a) The scores of the top ten finishers in a recent golf tournament:

71 67 67 72 76 72 73 68 72 72
Mean =
Median =

Mode =
IQR =

Standard Deviation =
Variance =

b) Weights of Carry-On Luggage in Pounds

30 27 12 42 35 47 38 36 27 35
22 29 17 3 21 0 38 32 41 33
26 45 18 43 18 32 31 32 19 21
33 31 28 29 51 12 14 21 18 26

Mean =
Median =

Mode =
IQR =

Standard Deviation =
Variance =
Name: _________________________
Section: _______________________

9. a) How many pairs of letters from the vowels (with replacement) are possible if order is neglected?

b) How about if replacements are not allowed and order is considered?

With replacement – you can use the vowel again even if you already chose it as your 1st letter (example:
AA, EE, II, OO, UU)
Without replacement – once you choose a certain vowel as your 1st letter, you cannot use it again as your
2nd letter

10. The phone numbers in the PH consist of 8 digits. How many different telephone numbers are possible,
assuming that the local number cannot begin with 0 or 1?

11. In how many ways can you arrange 5 men and 5 women alternately in a row?

12. In how many ways can you form a 4-person sales team from a group of 12 salesmen and 8
saleswomen if you want at most 2 women on the team?

13. Consider the following sets:

A={1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
B={0, 1, 3, 5, 7}
C={2, 4, 6, 8, 9}

Find the following.

a) U
b) 𝐴 ∪ 𝐶
c) 𝐴 ∪ 𝐵 𝑐
d) (𝐴 ∩ 𝐵) ∪ 𝐶
e) 𝐵 𝑐 ∩ 𝐶 𝐶