Module 1

A. Indicate whether the following statements require the use of descriptive or

inferential statistics.

1. A teacher wants to know the attitudes of all students towards abortion.

Answer: descriptive

2. A market analyst of a sales firm draws a chart showing the sales figures of a given
product for the period 2006-2007.
Answer: inferential

3. A forecaster predicts the results of an election using the number of votes cast in 15 out of
25 barangays.
Answer: inferential

4. Men are better in math than women.

Answer: inferential

5. Forty percent of the employees of an organization were recorded tardy for at least 15
working days.
Answer: descriptive

6. There are very few gender-related occupations.

Answer: inferential

7. An account predicts accuracy rate of a client’s financial resources.

Answer: descriptive

8. A quality control manager wishes to check production output.

Answer: descriptive

9. Records indicated that 75% of the faculty in the graduate school are doctoral degree
holders.
Answer: inferential

10. There is no relationship between educational qualification of parents and academic

achievement of their children.
Answer: inferential
B. Categorize each of the following variables as discrete or continuous.
1. Ages of out-of-school youth
Answer: discrete

2. Size of family in a certain barangay

Answer discrete

3. Number of car passers along C5 on a given day

Answer discrete

4. Distance from Baguio to Manila

Answer continuous

5. Volume of mineral water sold daily

Answer: continuous

6. Number of cars sold in branch outlet

Answer: discrete

7. Number of employees collecting retirement benefits from GSIS

Answer: continuous

8. Height of students
Answer: continuous

9. Salaries of employees
Answer: continuous

10. Weight of babies born in a hospital

Answer: continuous
C. Select the qualitative variable in each of the given pair
1. Sex Height
2. Time Status Employment
3. Hair color Weight
4. Car make Volume
5. Length Color
6. Asset Age
7. Occupation Distance
8. Temperature Political affiliation
9. Amount Type of school
10. Economic status Scores athletic teams

D. Categorize each of the following as either nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio

measurement.

1. Ranking of college athletic teams

Answer: ordinal

2. Employee number
Answer: ordinal

3. Temperature in Celsius degrees

Answer: interval

4. House numbers
Answer: ordinal

5. Brands of soft drinks

Answer: nominal

6. Socioeconomic status
Answer: ordinal

7. Number of vehicles registered

Answer: ratio

8. Zip code numbers

Answer: nominal
9. Annual income
Answer: ratio

10. Amount of time spent for telephone calls

Answer: ratio

E. Identify the qualitative and quantitative variables. If quantitative, classify

whether discrete or continuous, also indicate the minimum level of
measurement required in each.

1. Response time
Answer: quantitative, continuous

2. Number of words correctly spelled

Answer: quantitative, discrete

3. Car ownership
Answer: quantitative, discrete

4. Civil status
Answer: qualitative

5. Educational qualification of respondent

Answer: qualitative

6. Occupation
Answer: qualitative

7. Job satisfaction rating

Answer: quantitative, discrete

8. Number of government officials

Answer: quantitative, discrete

9. Favorite color
Answer: qualitative

10. Number of children

Answer: quantitative, discrete
F. Given:

X 2 4 7 9 11
Y 1 3 8 10 15

1. ∑ x = 33
2. ∑ x 2 = 271
3. ∑ y = 37
4. ∑ y2 = 399
5. ∑ xy = 325
6. ( ∑ y )2 = 1369
7. ( ∑ x )2 = 1089
8. ∑ x ∑ y = 1221
9. ∑ x ∑ y 2 = 13167
10. ∑ x 2 ∑ y = 10027

Solution:
x y xy x2 y2
2 1 2 4 1
4 3 12 16 9
7 8 56 49 64
9 10 90 81 100
11 15 165 121 225

∑ x = 2+4+7+9+11 ∑ y = 1+3+8+10+15 ∑x y= ∑ x2 = ∑ y2 =
2+12+56+90+165 4+16+49+81+121 1+9+64+100+225

∑ x = 33 ∑ y = 37 ∑ x y = 325 ∑ x 2 = 271 ∑ y2 = 399

( ∑ y )2 = (37)2 = 1369

( ∑ x )2 = (33)2 = 1089

∑ x∑ y = (33)(37) = 1221

∑ x ∑ y2 = (33)(399) = 13167
∑ x2∑ y = (271)(37) = 10027