Name : ANSWER KEY

Course : Business Statistics

Lecture: Pedro Garcia

San Pedro Junior college

Due date: 27th January 2021

Assignment #2

Question are separed in different selections there is a total of 18

question ; If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

1-2 Exercises Note : (A parameter is a measurement describing some characteristic of a

population. A statistic is a measurement describing some characteristic of a sample)

In Exercises 1–4, determine whether the given value is a statistic or a parameter.

1. statistics

2. statistics

3. Statistics

4. Parameter

Exercises 5–8, determine whether the given values are from a discrete or continuous data set.

5. discrete

6. continuous

7. discrete

8. continous

In Exercises 9–16, determine which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal,

interval, ratio) is most appropriate.

9. Ratio.

10. ordinal.

11. interval.

12. Nominal.

13. Nominal.

14. Nominal .

15. Ratio.

16. Nominal.

In Exercises 17, identify the (a) sample (b) population. (c) the parameter, (d)the statistic, (e). the

variable, and (f) the data.

Also, determine whether the sample is likely to be representative of the population.

17. A graduate student at the San Pedro High school conducts a research project about how

adult San Pedranos communicate. She begins with a survey mailed to 500 of the adults that

she knows. She asks them to mail back a response to this question: “Do you prefer to use e-

mail or snail mail (Post office)?” She gets back 65 responses, with 42 of them indicating a

preference for snail mail.

a) Population – all adult san pedranos

b) sample – 500 of the adults she know

c) parameter is the percentage or population mean for adult who use email or snail mail

d) statistics is the 42/65 for snail mail and the rest for email

e) the number response of adults

d) email or snail mail , response to question

Question 18

Solution:
a. 190,800 (29.2%)
b. 24.9%
c. 260,086/653,782 or 39.8%
d. 4.6%
e. 75.1% of all fatal traffic crashes for the period from 1994 to 2011 happened from 1994 to
2006.