QUESTION 1

Days on the market are shown for the 36 most recent home sales in the city of
Sonando Hills.
 
                 
164 14 76 77 34 127 164 71 58
107 61 92 74 81 91 160 164 113
14 103 19 142 25 125 55 106 112
42 121 9 151 58 45 111 21 23

 
(a) Calculate the mean, median, and mode. (Round your answers to 2 decimal
places.)
 
    
Mean 83.61  
Median 79  
Mode 164  

QUESTION 2
Consider the following sample data.
 
   
Sample A: 15, 18, 21
Sample B: 73, 76, 79
Sample C: 1,060; 1,063; 1,066

 
(a) Find the mean and standard deviation for each sample.
 
  Sample A: Sample B: Sample C:
Mean 18 76 1063

Sample Standard 3 3 3
Deviation
QUESTION 3
For each data set, answer the following questions.
 
   
Data Set 6, 7, 8
A:
Data Set 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
B:
Data Set 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
C: 12, 13

 
(a-c) Find the mean, sample standard deviation–treating the data as a
sample, and the population standard deviation–treating the data as a
population. (Round your answers to 4 decimal places.)
 
  Data Set A Data Set B Data Set CC

Mean 7 7 7

Sample Standard Deviation 1 2.1602 3.8944

Population Standard 0.8165 2 3.7417

Deviation

QUESTION 4
The mean monthly rent of students at Oxnard University is $970 with a
standard deviation of $204.
 
(a) John’s rent is $1,390. What is his standardized z-score? (Round your
answer to 3 decimal places.)
 
2.059
z           
 
(b) Is John’s rent an outlier?
 
multiple choice

 Yes

 No ( This option is right)

 
(c) How high would the rent have to be to qualify as an outlier?
 
1582
John’s rent would have to be $   or higher to be considered an outlier.

QUESTION 5
Convert each individual data value to a standardized z-score.
 a-1. Ages of airline passengers: x = 85, μ = 44, σ = 15 (Round your answer to
3 decimal places.)
 
2.733
z            
 
a-2. Is it an outlier?
 

 No, this is an unusual observation. ( This Option is right)

 No, this is not an outlier nor is it unusual.

 Yes, this is an outlier.

 
b-1. FICO credit scores: x = 564, μ = 743, σ = 72 (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
 
4.042
z            
 
b-2. Is it an outlier?
 

 No, this is an unusual observation.

 No, this is not an outlier nor is it unusual.

 Yes, this is an outlier. ( This Option is right )

 c-1. Condo rental vacancy days: x = 30, μ = 15, σ = 7 (Round your answer to 3 decimal
places.)
 
2.143
z            
 
c-2. Is it an outlier?
 

 No, this is an unusual observation. ( This option is right)

 No, this is not an outlier nor is it unusual.

 Yes, this is an outlier

QUESTION 6
On San Martin Boulevard, embedded sensors kept track of the vehicle traffic
count each hour for five weekdays, Monday through Friday, between 6 a.m.
and 8 p.m. (5 weeks × 14 hours = 70 observations).
 

 
 
(a) Visually estimate the quartiles Q1, Q2, Q3.
 
    
Q1 = 2900  
Q2 = 3300  
Q3 = 3900  

 
(b) Estimate xmin and xmax.
 
    
xmin = 2500  
xmax  = 4700  

(c) Is the distribution symmetric?

 
multiple choice

 Yes, the distribution is symmetric

 No, the distribution is skewed right ( This Option is right )

 No, the distribution is skewed left

rev: 09_25_2019_QC_CS-182636, 05_28_2020_QC_CS-214057,

QUESTION 7
Below are monthly rents paid by 30 students who live off campus.
 
 
590 590 590 790 560 450
550 890 600 480 580 520
420 600 510 520 710 775
460 480 620 550 570 365
590 660 680 700 580 630

(a) Using Excel, find the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation. (Round
your answers to 2 decimal places.)
 
Descriptive Statistics Data  
Mean 587  
Median 585  
Mode 590  
Standard Deviation 112.54  

 
(b) Which measure or measures of central tendency are most appropriate for
this data set?
  

 The mean or the median because these measures are close in

value, which suggests the data set is fairly symmetric. ( This Option is
right )

 The median because the data set is strongly skewed.

 The mode because the data is integer valued with a

very small range.

 
(c) Do the measures of central tendency agree?
  

 No

 Yes ( This option is right)

 
(e) Use Excel or MegaStat to sort and standardize the data. What is the z-
score for the following rent value? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
 
Rent value z-score  
680 0.83  

 
(f) Are there unusual data values?
  

 No ( This option is right)

 Yes

 
(g) Using the Empirical Rule, do you think the data could be from a normal
population?
  

 Yes ( This option is right )

 No

QUESTION 8
An executive’s telephone log showed the lengths of 60 calls initiated during the last week of
July.
 
                   
1 11 1 9 1 1 4 2 1 3
1 1 5 3 1 4 2 4 5 32
3 27 3 5 1 3 5 3 3 5
2 5 4 9 1 2 5 1 4 4
4 2 2 2 12 1 2 2 1 2
4 1 2 4 5 2 29 4 1 2

(b) Find the mean, median, and mode. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
 
Descriptive
Data
Statistics
count 60  
Mean 4.52  
Median 3  
Mode 1  

 
 
(c) Do the measures of center agree?
 

 Yes ( This option is right)

 No
(d) Are the data symmetric or skewed? If skewed, which direction?

 Yes, the data are skewed to the right. ( This option is right)

 No, the distribution is symmetric.