Questions from Business Statistics

Q: Find an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or the

Find an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or the Internet that discusses an average. 1. Does the article discuss the W for the data? 2. What are the units of the variable? 3. Is the average used the...

Q: Find an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or the

Find an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or the Internet that discusses a measure of spread. 1. Does the article discuss the W for the data? 2. What are the units of the variable? 3. Does the artic...

Q: Would you expect distributions of these variables to be uniform, unimodal

Would you expect distributions of these variables to be uniform, unimodal, or bimodal? Symmetric or skewed? Explain why. 1. The number of speeding tickets each student in the senior class of a college...

Q: Would you expect distributions of these variables to be uniform, unimodal

Would you expect distributions of these variables to be uniform, unimodal, or bimodal? Symmetric or skewed? Explain why. 1. Ages of people at a Little League game 2. Number of siblings of people in yo...

Q: Here is a bar chart summarizing the movie genres from the 891

Here is a bar chart summarizing the movie genres from the 891 movies in Exercise 3. (Data extracted from Movies 06-15) 1. Were Thriller/Suspense or Adventure films more common? 2. Is it easier to answ...

Q: The A Chance magazine article described in Chapter 2, Exercise 37

The A Chance magazine article described in Chapter 2, Exercise 37 further examined the impact of an applicant ethnicity on the likelihood of admission to the Houston Independent School District magnet...

Q: Here is a bar chart summarizing the movie ratings from the 891

Here is a bar chart summarizing the movie ratings from the 891 movies shown in Exercise 4. 1. Which was the least common rating? 2. Is it easier to answer the question from the bar chart or from the p...

Q: An article in the Winter 2003 issue of Chance magazine (www

An article in the Winter 2003 issue of Chance magazine (www.chance.amstat.org) reported on the Houston Independent School District magnet schools programs. Of the 1755 qualified applicants, 931 were a...

Q: The Chance article about the Houston magnet schools program described in Exercise

The Chance article about the Houston magnet schools program described in Exercise 37 also indicated that 517 applicants were black or Hispanic, 292 Asian, and 946 white. Summarize the relative frequen...

Q: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists causes of death in

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists causes of death in the United States during 2014: 1. Is it reasonable to conclude that heart or lung diseases were the cause of approximately 29.04...