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SUMMER 2020

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS 20 MARKS

INSTRUCTORS NAME: DR. ABDULAZIZ ALMAKTOOM

COURSE NAME: APPLIED
COURSE NUMBER: STST 241 SECTIONS: 1
STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS
NUMBER OF PAGES: 4 NUMBER OF QUESTIONS: 8

STUDENT NAME:

STUDENT I.D.:

Instructions to the Examinees

The duration of this exam is 3 hours. MARKS

You should submit your results through blackboard.
All answers must be merged and submitted in one file.
Question 1 /2
You are allowed to submit words documents, PDF and Excel. Question 2 /3
In case if you are not able to submit your results through blackboard,
you can email it to the following Question 3 /2
abalmaktoom@effatuniversity.edu.sa
atalmaktoom@gmail.com Question 4 /2
Question 5 /2
Question 6 /2
Question 7 /5
Question 8 /2

TOTAL /20
GRADE

Part 1 QUESTION 1 to QUESTION 6:

Based on the data given in the table below which the % of sugar, calories and type of a particular brand
of energy drink sold in various cities. Based on the analysis of this data answer the following questions:

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Country %Sugar Calories Type

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Jeddah 2.772 19.6 Light
Taif 3.857 31.5 Regular
Taif 0.07 10.5 Zero-sugar
Yanbu 3.465 28.7 Regular
Hail 3.591 29.4 Regular
Riyadh 3.262 27.3 Regular
Taif 3.801 30.8 Regular
Hail 0.336 9.8 Zero-sugar
Hail 2.373 19.6 Light
Unayzah 0.35 17.5 Zero-sugar
Riyadh 3.675 29.4 Regular
Taif 3.5 28 Regular
Jeddah 3.619 30.8 Regular
Yanbu 2.989 30.1 Regular
Jeddah 3.787 31.5 Light
Jeddah 3.619 33.6 Regular
Unayzah 3.696 31.5 Regular
Dammam 3.577 30.1 Light
Dammam 3.556 32.2 Regular
Unayzah 0.07 11.2 Zero-sugar

Question 1:
a. Which data are numerical and which are categorical? (1 Mark)
b. Identify the nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio class of data. (1 Mark)

Question 2: (3 Marks)
Analyze the relationship between COUNTRY and TYPE of drink by making a contingency table,
present your results by making a side-by-side Bar chart. What would you conclude from this data?

Question 3: (2 Marks)
Construct a polygon for CALORIES based on the TYPE of drinks. Describe differences
or similarities that you see in the polygon for various types of drinks. Describe the
distribution of CALORIES for various TYPES. Are they more or less symmetric? Or are
they skewed?

Question 4: (2 Marks)
Study CALORIES data using descriptive statistics (e.g. mean, median, mode, standard
deviation)

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Question 5: (2 Marks)
Calculate the upper and lower bounds for the percentage of data contained in ±1s, ±2s,
±3s to check if the data is normal or not.

Question 6: (2 Marks)
Calculate Z value to identify any outlier in the data, is there any? How did you know?

Question 7: (5 Marks)
A set of final examination grades in an introductory statistics course is normally
distributed, with a mean of 73 and a standard deviation of 8.
a. What is the probability that a student scored below 91 on this exam? (1 Mark)
b. What is the probability that a student scored between 65 and 89? (1 Mark)
c. The probability is 5% that a student taking the test scores higher than what grade?
(1 Mark)
d. If the professor grades on a curve (i.e., gives A’s to the top 10% of the class,
regardless of the score), are you better off with a grade of 81 on this exam or a
grade of 68 on a different exam, where the mean is 62 and the standard deviation is
3? Show your answer statistically and explain. (2 Marks)

Question 8: (2 Marks)

A manufacturing company produces electrical insulators. If the insulators break when in

use, a short circuit is likely to occur. To test the strength of the insulators, destructive
testing is carried out to determine how much force is required to break the insulators.
Force is measured by observing the number of pounds of force applied to the insulator
before it breaks. The following data are from 30 insulators subjected to this testing:

1870 1752 1820 1774 1866 1784

1728 1680 1744 1550 1764 1522
1656 1810 1788 1756 1734 1696
1610 1652 1688 1762 1662 1592
1634 1736 1810 1866 1734 1662

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a. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence that the population mean force
is greater than 1,500 pounds?
b. What assumption about the population distribution is needed in order to conduct
the t test in (a)?

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