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The following data relate to the scores obtained by 9 salesmen of a company in an

intelligence test and their weekly sales in Rs. (‘000s)


Salesmen A B C D E F G H I
Test scores 50 60 50 60 80 50 80 40 70
Weekly scores 30 60 40 50 60 30 70 50 60
Obtain the regression equation of sales on intelligence test scores of the salesmen.
If the intelligence test scores of a salesman is 65, what would be his expected weekly sales?

Obtain the rank correlation coefficient for the following data:


Wages 68 64 75 50 64 80 75 40 55 64
No. of workers 62 58 68 45 81 60 68 48 50 70

The following data relate to the age of the employees and the number of days they reported
sick in a month
Employee 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Age 30 32 35 40 48 50 52 55 57 61
Sick days 1 0 2 5 2 4 6 5 7 8
Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation and interpret it.

The information given below relates to the advertisement and sales of company:
Advertisement expenditure Sales in lakhs
Arithmetic mean 20 100
Standard deviation 3 12
Correlation coefficient = +0.8
Find the two regression equations. What should be the advertisement expenditure, if the
company wants to reach a sales target of Rs. 120 lakhs?
Calculate the two regression coefficients when r = 0.8, σx = 5 and σy = 7.

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