Module Business Statistics 131

Lecturer Dr Innocent Karangwa

Task Excel Group Assignment 1
Due date 29 April 2019
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Question 1
1.1

Histogram for the amount of energy that

can be saved
60
50 48
40
40
Frequency

30 25
20 17
12
10 5 Frequency
0 2 1
0
40- 45- 50- 55- 60- 65- 70- 75- 80-
45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85
Hours
Class intervals

1.2
Class
interva Frequen
ls cy
40-45 0
45-50 2
50-55 1
55-60 5
60-65 25
65-70 40
70-75 48
75-80 17
80-85 12
1.3

Ogive for the amount of energy that can

be saved
160
140
120
Cumulative frequency

100
80
60
40
20
0
40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80
Number of hours the bulbs lasted

Question 2
2.1

Column1

Mean 560916.8814
Standard Error 14004.61387
Median 516565
Mode 398496
Standard Deviation 152129.0463
Sample Variance 23143246739
Kurtosis -1.139798782
Skewness 0.46417132
Range 561526
Minimum 330694
Maximum 892220
Sum 66188192
Count 118

2.2
Mean¿median¿mode
Therefore, it is skewed to the right and is positively skewed.
Question 3
3.1
Sum of
Row Labels Spend
Checkers 11227
Female 7653
Male 3574
Pick n Pay 18001
Female 9134
Male 8867
Spar 3324
Female 2302
Male 1022
Grand Total 32552

3.2
Sum of
Row Labels Age
Checkers 422
1 109
2 111
3 114
4 88
Pick n Pay 702
1 114
2 272
3 186
4 85
5 45
Spar 103
2 28
4 30
5 45
Grand Total 1227
Question 4
4.1
19.081
Slope
2
13720.
Intercept
3
0.9514
R-Square
7
438.38
Standard Error
4

4.2
Predicted
Year Number of Service Calls Total Cost Error
Cost
 January 1040 33600 33564.75562 35
 February 1200 36300 36617.75505 -318
 March 1260 37800 37762.62984 37
 April 1100 35500 34709.63041 790
 May 1220 36600 36999.37998 -399
 June 1010 32900 32992.31822 -92
 July 1190 36200 36426.94259 -227
 August 1050 33400 33755.56808 -356
 Septembe
1210 37700 36808.56752 891
r
 October 1250 37400 37571.81738 -172
 November 1060 33800 33946.38055 -146
 December 1280 38100 38144.25477 -44

4.3
R¿0 meaning it has a positive correlation; it is very high/strong.
The y-values increase as the x-values increase, or the y-values decrease as the
x-values decrease.
4.4

Total Cost for Number of service calls in a year

39000

38000 f(x) = 19.0812464771721 x + 13720.2592801353

R² = 0.951472545440201
37000

36000
total cost

35000

34000

33000

32000

31000

30000
1000 1050 1100 1150 1200 1250 1300

number of service calls