Statistic In Education

Assignment

1. Classify each variable as qualitative (QL) or quantitative (QT).

(Tick your answers in the correct category)

QL QT
a. Colors of automobiles at the faculty parking lot
b. Number of desks in the classrooms
c. Classification of children in a day care center (infant, toddler,
preschool)
d. Weight of fish caught at Tasik Cini
e. Number of pages in statistics textbooks
f. Religion of students enrolled in UNITAR

2. Classify each variable as discrete (D) or continuous (C).

(Tick your answers in the correct category)

D C
a. Number of loaves of bread baked each day at a bakery
b. Incomes of single parents who attend a part-time course
c. Lifetimes of batteries in a tape recorder
d. Number of pizzas sold last year in Malaysia
e. Weights of newborn infants at a certain hospital
f. Water temperature of the sauna at a health spa

3. Classify each as nominal-leval (N), ordinal-level (O), interval-level (I) or ratio-level ®.

(Tick your answers in the correct category)

N O I R
a. Ages of students enrolled in a martial arts course
b. Rankings of weight lifters
c. Temperature of automatic popcorn poppers
d. Marital status of respondents to a survey on study habits
e. Time required by drivers to complete a course
f. Horsepower of motorcycle engines

4. The Jansen Motor Company has developed a new engine to further reduce gasoline
consumption. The new engine was installed in 20 mid-sized cars and the number of miles per
gallon recorded (to the nearest mile per gallon).

a.Use the “2 to the k rule” to determine the number of classes. 29 32 20 30 39

b.Determine the class interval.
c. Develop a frequency distribution
27 28 21 36 20
d.Construct a relative frequency distribution 27 18 32 37 29
e.Construct a histogram 30 23 25 19 30

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5. The number of semester credit hours for seven part-time college students is: 8, 5, 4, 10, 8,
3, and 4. Compute the:
a. mean b. median c. mode

6. The manager of a fast-food restaurant selected several cash register receipts at random. The
amounts spent by customers were $12, $15, $16, $10, and $27. Compute the:
a.range b. the mean c. the sample variance d. the sample standard deviation

7. Listed below are the selling prices (in thousands of dollars) for a sample of 19 lakeside lots in
Pinnacle Peak, a vacation home community in the Blue Ridge mountains.

86 61 148 81 39 142 140 65 28 85

90 92 25 50 85 85 82 120 137
Determine the following:
a. the first quartile b. the third quartile
c. the median d. Draw a box plot for the data.

8. The following stem-and-leaf display shows the time (in minutes) for a sample of college
students took to complete a statistics test.
Frequency Stem & Leaf
5 3 78999
4 4 2234
7 4 5677779
5 5 12234
5 5 56888
a. How many college students were studied?
b. How many college students are there in the third class?
c. What are the smallest value and the largest value?
d. List the actual value in the fourth row.
e. How many students completed the test less than 50 minutes?

9. A random sample of 250 adults was taken, and they were asked whether they prefer
watching sports or opera on television. The following table gives the two-way classification of
these 250 adults.

Prefers Prefers Watching Total

Watching Sports Opera
Male 85 35 120
Female 55 75 130
Total 140 110 250

If one adult is selected at random from this group, find;

1. The probability if an adult is chosen that he/she prefers watching sports?

2. The probability if an adult is chosen that he/she prefers watching opera?
3. The probability if an adult is chosen that he is a male?
4. The probability if an adult is chosen that she is a female?
5. The probability if an adult is chosen that he/she either a male or prefers watching sports?

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6. The probability if an adult is chosen that he/she either a male or prefers watching opera?
7. The probability if an adult is chosen that he/she either a female or prefers watching
opera?
8. The probability if an adult is chosen that he/she either a female or prefers watching
sports?
9. The probability if an adult is chosen that he/she prefers watching opera and he is a male
adult?
10. The probability if an adult is chosen that he/she prefers watching sports and he is a
female adult?
11. The probability if an adult is chosen that he/she he is a male given that he prefers
watching sports?
12. The probability if an executive is chosen that he/she is a female given that she prefers
watching opera?

10.
1. Explain the difference between a discrete and a continuous random variable.
2. Give three examples of a discrete random variable
3. Give three examples of a continuous random variable.
4. The number of calls received per day at a crisis hot line is distributed as follows:

Number, x 30 31 32 33 34
Probability, P(x) 0.05 0.21 0.38 0.25 0.11

Find the mean, variance and standard deviation of the distribution.

11. Find the area under the standard normal distribution curve for each.
a. Between z=0 and z=1.95
b. Between z=1.32 and z=1.82
c. Between z= -1.05 and z=2.05
d. To the right of z=1.99
e. To the right of z=-1.36
f. To the left z=-2.09

12. Using the standard normal distribution, find each probability.

a. P(0 < z < 2.07)
b. P(-1.83 < z < 0)
c. P(-1.59 < z < +2.01)
d. P(1.33 < z < 1.88)
e. P(z > -1.77)
f. P(z < 1.93)
g. P(z < 1.19)

13. The average number of years a person takes to complete a graduate degree program is 3.
The standard deviation is 4 months. Assume the variable is normally distributed. If an
individual enrolls in the program, find the probability that it will take,
a. More than 4 years to complete the program
b. Less than 3 years to complete the program
c. Between 3.8 and 4.5 years to complete the program
d. Between 2.5 and 3.1 years to complete the program.

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13. The average teacher’s salary in Petaling Jaya is $52,174. Suppose that the distribution is
normal with standard deviation $7,500. If we sample 100 teachers’ salaries, what is the
probability that the sample mean is less than $50,000.

14. The amounts of telephone bills for all households in a large city have a distribution that is
skewed to the right with a mean of $70 and standard deviation of $25. If a random
sample of 90 households is selected, calculate the mean and standard deviation of the
sample means and describe the shape of its sampling distribution.

15. A study of 40 English composition professors showed that they spent on average, 12.6
minutes correcting a student’s term paper.
a. What is the mean of the population?
b. Develop a 90 percent confidence interval of the mean time for all composition
papers when population standard deviation is 2.5minutes.
c. If a professor stated that he spent on average 30 minutes correcting term paper,
what would be your reaction (is it reasonable or not)

16. A study of bowlers showed that their average score was 186. The standard deviation of
the population is 6.
a. Find the 90% confidence interval of the mean score for all bowlers.
b. Find the 95% confidence interval of the mean score if a sample of 100 bowlers is
used instead of a sample of 40.
c. Which interval is smaller? Explain why.

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