Questions from Statistics Principles


Q: An engineer is studying bearing failures for two different materials in aircraft

An engineer is studying bearing failures for two different materials in aircraft gas turbine engines. The following data are failure times (in millions of cycles) for samples of the two material types...

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Q: A random sample of 60 married couples who have been married 7

A random sample of 60 married couples who have been married 7 years was asked the number of children they have. The results of the survey are as follows: Note: / = 2.27, s = 1.22. (a) What is the shap...

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Q: The following data represent the weights (in grams) of 50

The following data represent the weights (in grams) of 50 randomly selected quarters. Determine and interpret the quartiles. Does the data set contain any outliers?

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Q: The diameter of the Douglas fir tree is measured at a height

The diameter of the Douglas fir tree is measured at a height of 1.37 meters. The following data represent the diameter in centimeters of a random sample of 12 Douglas firs in the western Washington Ca...

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Q: Crickets make a chirping noise by sliding their wings rapidly over each

Crickets make a chirping noise by sliding their wings rapidly over each other. Perhaps you have noticed that the number of chirps seems to increase with the temperature. The following data list the te...

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Q: Researchers wanted to evaluate whether ginkgo, an over-the-

Researchers wanted to evaluate whether ginkgo, an over-the-counter herb marketed as enhancing memory, improves memory in elderly adults as measured by objective tests. To do this, they recruited 98 me...

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Q: In a random sample of 678 adult males 20 to 34 years

In a random sample of 678 adult males 20 to 34 years of age, it was determined that 58 of them have hypertension (high blood pressure). Source: The Centers for Disease Control. (a) Obtain a point esti...

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Q: Use the data from Problem 1. (a) Find

Use the data from Problem 1. (a) Find the least-squares regression line treating temperature as the explanatory variable and chirps per second as the response variable. (b) Interpret the slope and y-i...

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Q: Many of the examples and exercises in the text have dealt with

Many of the examples and exercises in the text have dealt with IQ scores. We now know that IQ scores based on the Stanford–Binet IQ test are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 100 and s...

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Q: Use the results from Problems 1 and 2 to compute and interpret

Use the results from Problems 1 and 2 to compute and interpret R2.

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