Statistics

SE-2nd year
DCS -University of Karachi
Supervisor: Ms. Shaista Rais

Assignment # 8

Question 1:

A marketing firm wished to determine whether or not number of television commercials broadcast were
linearly correlated to the sales of its product. The data obtained from each of several cities, are shown in
the following table.

City A B C D E F G H I J
No.Tv Commercials(x) 12 6 9 15 11 15 8 16 12 6
Sales Units (y) 7 5 10 14 12 9 6 11 11 8

a) Draw a Scatter diagram

b) Calculate r

Question 2:

People not only live longer today but also live longer independently. The May/June 1989 issue of Public
Health Reports published an article “A Multistate Analysis of Active Life Expectancy.” Two of the
variables studied were a person’s current age and the expected number of years remaining.

Age (x) 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83
Years remaining (y) 16.5 15.1 13.7 12.4 11.2 10.1 9.0 8.4 7.1 6.4

a) Draw a scatter diagram.

b) Calculate the equation of best fit.
c) Draw the line of best fit on the scatter diagram.
d) What are the expected years remaining for a person who is 70 years old? Find the answers in
two different ways: Use the equation from (b) and use the line on the scatter diagram from (c).
e) Are you surprised that the data all lie so close to the line of best fit? Explain why the ordered
pairs follow the line of best fit so closely.