1.

The Los Angeles Times regularly reports the air quality index for various areas of Southern
California. A sample of air quality index values for Pomona provided the following data:
28, 42, 58, 48, 45, 55, 60, 49, and 50.
(i) Compute the range and interquartile range. [1+4]
(ii) Compute the sample variance and sample standard deviation. [2+1]
(iii) A sample of air quality index readings for Anaheim provided a sample mean of 48.5, a
sample variance of 136, and a sample standard deviation of 11.66. What comparisons can you
make between the air quality in Pomona and that in Anaheim based on these descriptive
statistics? [4]

2. Below is the number of customers who visited Smith’s True-Value hardware store in
Bellville, Ohio, over the last twenty-three days.
46 52 46 40 42 46 40 37 46 40 52 32 37
32 52 40 32 52 40 52 46 46 52
(i) Calculate the coefficient of skewness and comment on the shape of the data. [4+1]
(ii) Draw a box and whiskers plot. Is there any outlier? If yes, what are those. [4+1]

3. The box plot shows the undergraduate in-state tuition per credit hour at four-year public
colleges.

(i) Estimate the median. [1]

(ii) Estimate the first and third quartiles. [2]
(iii) Determine the interquartile range. [1]
(iv) Beyond what point is a value considered an outlier? [2]
(v) Identify any outliers and estimate their value. [1]
(vi) Is the distribution symmetrical or positively or negatively skewed? [1]

4. The following stem-and-leaf chart shows the number of units produced per day in a factory.
Here, stem shows the 10th place and leaf shows the unit place of each observation. [9]

(i) How many days were studied?

(ii) How many observations are in the first class?
(iii) What are the minimum value and the maximum value?
(iv) List the actual values in the fourth row.
(v) List the actual values in the second row.
(vi) How many values are less than 70?
(vii) How many values are 80 or more?
(viii) What is the median?
(ix) How many values are between 60 and 89, inclusive?