STA201 Assignment 1

Question 1
The following table shows some information on a variety of different vehicles. Using the information
given in table 1, answer question 1a – 1d
Table 1: Vehicles
Engine Number Vehicle City Hwy Model
Model Cylinders Transmission Fuel
size of gears Class MPG MPG Year
ACURA small
3.5 6 Automatic 6 Gasoline 19 28 2010
RDX SUV
HYUNDAI
1.6 4 Manual 7 Gasoline large car 28 38 2015
Sonata
Small
Ford Fiesta 1.6 4 Manual 5 Gasoline 28 36 2006
car
DODGE midsize
6.4 8 Automatic 8 Gasoline 14 25 2010
Challenger car
BMW X5 standard
3 6 Automatic 8 Gasoline 18 24 2013
xDrive35i SUV
HONDA midsize
3.5 6 Automatic 6 Gasoline 21 32 2014
Accord car
LAND
ROVER standard
3 6 Automatic 8 Diesel 22 29 2008
Range SUV
Rover
BENTLEY midsize
6.8 8 Automatic 8 Gasoline 11 18 2012
Mulsanne car
MAZDA small
2.5 4 Automatic 6 Gasoline 24 30 2013
CX-5 SUV
PORSCHE
small
Cayman 3.4 6 Manual 6 Gasoline 19 26 2015
car
GTS

1a)
i. How many variables are listed in table 1?
ii. Classify the variables according to their types (Qualitative / Quantitative).

1b) Construct a frequency distribution table to represent the summary information of the variable
“Vehicle Class” and display the results in a pie chart.

1c) Complete the following table and answer the questions

Table 2: Frequency distribution of Transmission by Number of Gears
Number of Gears
Transmission Total
5 6 7 8
Automatic
Manual
Total

i. What is the modal response for the variable “Transmission”? (Which has the highest
frequency?)
ii. What proportion of vehicles have 7 gears?
iii. What proportion of Automatic vehicles have 8 gears?
iv. What proportion of vehicles with 6 gears are Manual?
v. Construct a side by side bar chart to represent the information given in table 2.
1d) Complete the following table and answer the questions

Table 3: Frequency distribution of Hwy MPG

Relative Cumulative
Hwy MPG Tally Frequency
frequency relative frequency

15 – 20

20 – 25

25 – 30

30 – 35

35 – 40
i. What proportion of vehicles have mileage between 20 and 30 MPG
ii. What proportion of vehicles have mileage of at least 30 MPG
iii. Construct a histogram to display the data represented in table 3.

Question 2
Do running times of American movies differ somehow from running times of French movies?
A researcher investigated this question by randomly selecting 25 recent movies of each type, resulting
in the following running times:

Am: 94 90 95 93 128 95 125 91 104 116 162 102 90

110 92 113 116 90 97 103 95 120 109 91 138

Fr: 123 116 90 158 122 119 125 90 96 94 137 102 105
106 95 125 122 103 96 111 81 113 128 93 92

Construct a comparative stem-and-leaf display by listing stems in the middle of your paper and then
placing the Am leaves out to the left and the Fr leaves out to the right. Then comment on the interesting
features of the display.

Question 3
150 steel workshops have the following distribution of average number of workers in various hourly
wage brackets:

Wage Bracket: 500 – 600 600 – 700 700 – 800 800 – 900 900 – 1000

Number of workshops: 17 28 72 21 12
Average Number of
15 11 9 6 5
Workers per workshop:

Find the mean salary paid to the workers.

Question 4
A group of friends are going on a day out to Dhaka Resort. They divided their route into 3 equal parts,
and planned on maintaining an average speed of 59 km/h on their way to their destination. Their speed
for the first and second part were 65 km/h and 84 km/h respectively. What speed should they maintain
for the third part of their journey if they are to achieve their target average speed?

Question 5
Let’s assume you bought a new car with Tk. 5,500,000. The car depreciates in value by 35% after the
first year, 15% after the second year, and 7% after the third year onward. What is the average rate of
depreciation per year after three years? Therefore, what will be the value of the car after three years of
use?

Question 6
A study on a range of automotive lubricants reported the following data on oxidation-induction time
(min) for various commercial oils:

Oxidation-Induction Time: 87 103 130 160 180 195 132 145 211 105
145 153 152 138 87 99 93 119 129

a. Calculate the sample variance and standard deviation for the oxidation-induction time.

Question 7
Blood cocaine concentration (mg/L) was determined both for a sample of individuals who had died
from cocaine-induced excited delirium (ED) and for a sample of those who had died from a cocaine
overdose without excited delirium; survival time for people in both groups was at most 6 hours.

ED: 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2

0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.7 0.8 1 1.5 2.7
2.8 3.5 4 8.9 9.2 11.7 21

Non-
0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2
ED:
0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.8
0.9 1 1.2 1.4 1.5 1.7 2 3.2 3.5 4.1
4.3 4.8 5 5.6 5.9 6 6.4 7.9 8.3 8.7
9.1 9.6 9.9 11 11.5 12.2 12.7 14 16.6 17.8

a. Determine the three quartile values for blood cocaine concentration for both ED and Non-ED
samples.
b. Construct a comparative boxplot (two boxplots on the same set of axes, one above the other),
and use it as a basis for comparing and contrasting the ED and non-ED samples.