maths assignments-Week 8 : Final Exam - Final Exam

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Week 8 : Final Exam - Final Exam


1.(TCO A)Seventeen salespeople reported the following number of sales calls completed last month.

72 93 82 81 82 97 102 107 119
86 88 91 83 93 73 100 102

a. Compute the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation, Q1, Q3, Min, and Max for the above sample data on number of sales calls per month.

Note: Both Excel and R report the value of Q3 as 100, rather than 101. Be careful about the specific procedure that your course uses for this calculation.


b. In the context of this situation, interpret the Median, Q1, and Q3. (Points : 33)

The median value of 91 means that half of the salespeople reported a number of sales calls that exceeded this value, while half reported a number that did not exceed it.

The Q1 value of 82 means that 25% of the salespeople reported a number of sales calls less than this value.

The Q3 value of 100 means that 75% of the salespeople reported a number of sales calls less than this value.

2.(TCO B) Cedar Home Furnishings has collected data on their customers in terms of whether they reside in an urban location or a suburban location, as well as rating the customers as either “good,” “borderline,” or “poor.” The data is below.

Urban

Suburban

Total

Good

60

168

228

Borderline

36

72

108

Poor

24

40

64

Total

120

280

400

If you choose a customer at random, then find the probability that the customer

a. is considered “borderline.”



b. is considered “good” and resides in an urban location.

c. is suburban, given that customer is considered “poor.” (Points : 18)

3.(TCO B)Historically, 70% of your customers at Rodale Emporium pay for their purchases using credit cards. In a sample of 20 customers, find the probability that

a. exactly 14 customers will pay for their purchases using credit cards.

Using the Binomial Distribution wi



b. at least 10 customers will pay for their purchases using credit cards.

c. at most 12 customers will pay for their purchases using credit cards. (Points : 18)

4.(TCO B) The demand for gasoline at a local service station is normally distributed with a mean of 27,009 gallons per day and a standard deviation of 4,530 gallons per day.

Note: The mean value of “27009” looks suspiciously like a typo. If the actual value was meant to be 27000, then the results below will be off by a bit. If you get marked off for these answers, I would recommend that you ask your instructor about which value was used for the “correct” answer.

a. Find the probability that the demand for gasoline exceeds 22,000 gallons for a given day.

b. Find the probability that the demand for gasoline falls between 20,000 and 23,000 gallons for a given day.


c. How many gallons of gasoline should be on hand at the beginning of each day so that we can meet the demand 90% of the time (i.e., the station stands a 10% chance of running out of gasoline for that day)? (Points : 18)

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5.(TCO C) An operations analyst from an airline company has been asked to develop a fairly accurate estimate of

the mean refueling and baggage handling time at a foreign airport. A random sample of 36 refueling and baggage handling times yields the following results.

Sample Size = 36
Sample Mean = 24.2 minutes
Sample Standard Deviation = 4.2 minutes

a. Compute the 90% confidence interval for the population mean refueling and baggage time.

b. Interpret this interval.


c. How many refueling and baggage handling times should be sampled so that we may construct a 90% confidence interval with a sampling error of .5 minutes for the population mean refueling and baggage time? (Points : 18)

6.(TCO C) The manufacturer of a certain brand of toothpaste claims that a high percentage of dentists recommend the use of their toothpaste. A random sample of 400 dentists results in 310 recommending their toothpaste.

a. Compute the 99% confidence interval for the population proportion of dentists who recommend the use of this toothpaste.


b. Interpret this confidence interval.


c. How large a sample size will need to be selected if we wish to have a 99% confidence interval that is accurate to within 3%? (Points : 18)


7.(TCO D) A Ford Motor Company quality improvement team believes that its recently implemented defect reduction program has reduced the proportion of paint defects. Prior to the implementation of the program, the proportion of paint defects was .03 and had been stationary for the past 6 months. Ford selects a random sample of 2,000 cars built after the implementation of the defect reduction program. There were 45 cars with paint defects in that sample. Does the sample data provide evidence to conclude that the proportion of paint defects is now less than .03 (with ??= .01)? Use the hypothesis testing procedure outlined below.

a. Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses.

b. State the level of significance.


c. Find the critical value (or values), and clearly show the rejection and non-rejection regions.

d. Compute the test statistic.




e. Decide whether you can reject Ho and accept Ha or not.


f. Explain and interpret your conclusion in part e. What does this mean?

g. Determine the observed p-value for the hypothesis test and interpret this value. What does this mean?

h. Does the sample data provide evidence to conclude that the proportion of paint defects is now less than .03 (with ??= .01)? (Points : 24)

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8.(TCO D) A new car dealer calculates that the dealership must average more than 4.5% profit on sales of new cars. A random sample of 81 cars gives the following result.

a. Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses.

b. State the level of significance.

c. Find the critical value (or values), and clearly show the rejection and nonrejection regions.

d. Compute the test statistic.

e. Decide whether you can reject Ho and accept Ha or not.


f. Explain and interpret your conclusion in part e. What does this mean?

g. Determine the observed p-value for the hypothesis test and interpret this value. What does this mean?

h. Does the sample data provide evidence to conclude that the dealership averages more than 4.5% profit on sales of new cars (using ? = .10)? (Points : 24)


9.(TCO E) Bill McFarland is a real estate broker who specializes in selling farmland in a large western state. Because Bill advises many of his clients about pricing their land, he is interested in developing a pricing formula of some type. He feels he could increase his business significantly if he could accurately determine the value of a farmer’s land. A geologist tells Bill that the soil and rock characteristics in most of the area that Bill sells do not vary much. Thus the price of land should depend greatly on acreage. Bill selects a sample of 30 plots recently sold. The data is found below (in Minitab), where X=Acreage and Y=Price ($1,000s).

PRICE

ACREAGE

PREDICT

60

20.0

50

130

40.5

250

25

10.2

300

100.0

85

30.0

182

56.5

115

41.0

24

10.0

60

18.5

92

30.0

77

25.6

122

42.0

41

14.0

200

70.0

42

13.0

60

21.6

20

6.5

145

45.0

61

19.2

235

80.0

250

90.0

278

95.0

118

41.0

46

14.0

69

22.0

220

81.5

235

78.0

50

16.0

25

10.0

290

100.0

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Correlations: PRICE, ACREAGE

Pearson correlation of PRICE and ACREAGE = 0.997
P-Value = 0.000


Regression Analysis: PRICE versus ACREAGE



a. Analyze the above output to determine the regression equation.



b. Find and interpret in the context of this problem.

c. Find and interpret the coefficient of determination (r-squared).

d. Find and interpret coefficient of correlation.

e. Does the data provide significant evidence (??= .05) that the acreage can be used to predict the price? Test the utility of this model using a two-tailed test. Find the observed p-value and interpret.

f. Find the 95% confidence interval for mean price of plots of farmland that are 50 acres. Interpret this interval.

g. Find the 95% prediction interval for the price of a single plot of farmland that is 50 acres. Interpret this interval.

h. What can we say about the price for a plot of farmland that is 250 acres? (Points : 48)

10.(TCO E)An insurance firm wishes to study the relationship between driving experience (X1, in years), number of driving violations in the past three years (X2), and current monthly auto insurance premium (Y). A sample of 12 insured drivers is selected at random. The data is given below (in MINITAB):

Y

X1

X2

Predict X1

Predict X2

74

5

2

8

1

38

14

0

50

6

1

63

10

3

97

4

6

55

8

2

57

11

3

43

16

1

99

3

5

46

9

1

35

19

0

60

13

3

Regression Analysis: Y versus X1, X2



Analysis of Variance


Correlations: Y, X1, X2

a. Analyze the above output to determine the multiple regression equation.

b. Find and interpret the multiple index of determination (R-Sq).

c. Perform the t-tests on and on (use two tailed test with (??= .05). Interpret your results.


d. Predict the monthly premium for an individual having 8 years of driving experience and 1 driving violation during the past 3 years. Use both a point estimate and the appropriate interval estimate.

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