Questions from Business Statistics


Q: A healthy cereal should be low in both calories and sodium.

A healthy cereal should be low in both calories and sodium. Data for 77 cereals were examined and judged acceptable for inference. The 77 cereals had between 50 and 160 calories per serving and betwee...

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Q: Is your IQ related to the size of your brain? A

Is your IQ related to the size of your brain? A group of female college students took a test that measured their verbal IQs and also underwent an MRI scan to measure the size of their brains (in 1000s...

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Q: Further analysis of the data for the breakfast cereals in Exercise 46

Further analysis of the data for the breakfast cereals in Exercise 46 looked for an association between Fiber content and Calories by attempting to construct a linear model. Here are three graphs. Whi...

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Q: The output shows an attempt to model the association between average January

The output shows an attempt to model the association between average January Temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit) and Latitude (in degrees north of the equator) for 59 U.S. cities. Which of the assumpt...

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Q: A skeptic suggests that reduced sea ice isn’t due to global climate

A skeptic suggests that reduced sea ice isn’t due to global climate change at all. He offers the following model, including Year since 1979 as another predictor as an alternative to the model in Exerc...

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Q: The Environmental Protection Agency is examining the relationship between the ozone level

The Environmental Protection Agency is examining the relationship between the ozone level (in parts per million) and the population (in millions) of U.S. cities. Part of the regression analysis is sho...

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Q: Pew Research surveyed 5006 U.S. adults to ask their

Pew Research surveyed 5006 U.S. adults to ask their opinions about the state of jobs in the United States in 2016. (www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/10/06/the-state-of-american-jobs/) Respondents were as...

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Q: A business analyst was interested in the relationship between a company sales

A business analyst was interested in the relationship between a company sales and its profits. She collected data (in millions of dollars) from a random sample of Fortune 500 companies and created the...

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Q: Consider again the relationship between the population and ozone level of U

Consider again the relationship between the population and ozone level of U.S. cities that you analyzed in Exercise 51. 1. Give a 90% confidence interval for the slope of the relationship between ozon...

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Q: Consider again the relationship between the sales and profits of Fortune 500

Consider again the relationship between the sales and profits of Fortune 500 companies that you analyzed in Exercise 52. 1. Find a 95% confidence interval for the slope of the regression line. Interpr...

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