Questions from Business Statistics


Q: Researchers studied ergometer (rowing machine) time (in seconds)

Researchers studied ergometer (rowing machine) time (in seconds) for international male competitors in the 2007 World Junior Rowing Championships. They found that the mean time to row 2000 meters on a...

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Q: Exercise 12.44 asks whether a representative sample of Big Mac

Exercise 12.44 asks whether a representative sample of Big Mac prices (after conversion to U.S. dollars) from countries in Europe provides evidence that the mean European price is less than the report...

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Q: Major League Baseball (MLB) includes two groups of teams,

Major League Baseball (MLB) includes two groups of teams, in “leagues.” There are 15 teams in each of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). Since 1...

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Q: Suppose that college students with a checking account typically write relatively few

Suppose that college students with a checking account typically write relatively few checks in any given month, whereas people who are not college students typically write many more checks during a mo...

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Q: Let x represent the time (in minutes) that it takes

Let x represent the time (in minutes) that it takes a fifth grade student to read a certain passage. Suppose that the mean and standard deviation of the x distribution are µ = 2 minutes and σ = 0.8 mi...

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Q: The article “the association between television Viewing and irregular Sleep Schedules

The article “the association between television Viewing and irregular Sleep Schedules among children Less than 3 Years of age” (Pediatrics [2005]: 851â€&...

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Q: Suppose that a random sample of 50 cans of a particular brand

Suppose that a random sample of 50 cans of a particular brand of fruit juice is selected, and the amount of juice (in ounces) in each of the cans is determined. Let µ denote the mean amount of juice f...

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Q: The authors of the paper “Serum Zinc Levels of cord blood

The authors of the paper “Serum Zinc Levels of cord blood: relation to birth weight and gestational period” (Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology [2015]: 180–183) carried out a study of z...

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Q: How much money do people spend on graduation gifts? In 2016

How much money do people spend on graduation gifts? In 2016, the national retail federation (www.nrf.com) surveyed 2511 consumers who reported that they bought one or more graduation gifts in 2016. Th...

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Q: The authors of the paper “Driving performance while Using a mobile

The authors of the paper “Driving performance while Using a mobile phone: a Simulation Study of greek professional Drivers” (Transportation Research Part F [2016]: 164–170) describe a study to evaluat...

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